Human versus nvme

hornetstinger

hornetstinger

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A nvme can read something like 2500gb second?

Data in drives is stored as binary, so say you had a keyboard with 1 and 0 keys and this was connected as a "hard drive" and you entered in raw data 100% accurately to exactly simulate data sent to hdd controller, how many times faster would nvme be? And how long would you take yypressung 1 or 0 for the computer to "boot up" into Windows?

This should be calculable.
 
Interested to know, but equally it's a one sided test, I wonder if it's possible to calculate the amount of data a human processes navigating down a busy road in the wind having a conversation with someone, from ears, eyes, nose, sense of touch, must be a fair bit of bandwidth if you turn all that into zeros and one's.
How many mega /giga pixels equivalent are we processing per millisecond just using our eyes.
 
I think you'd have to also base it on random reads rather than sequentially too, as I'd guess that's a closer approximation to how the brain acceses memory.

Just an additional thought my above scenario would be more cpu/ram rather than memory recall (no pun intended) if we are just taking about accessing memories, I don't know how you'd quantify that, but it's pretty fast, I can recall my last holiday for example, pretty instantly, sights, sounds, temperatures, smells..
 
I'm simply talking about single action, rather than multi-processing. The data send via the cable is a series of 0's and 1's, so I guess it's more of throughput.

I suppose you can work it out, if a SSD can copy 1GB in say 5 seconds, then how long would it take to enter in 1GB in binary.
 
But how much of that would be an approximation of my last holiday, again hard to quantify, as brains don't have sectors that store fixed bits and bytes, brains tend to store the important bits and then make up the rest on the fly to form a recalled memory.

For example an SSD or whatever would have saved the exact pressure on your skin every few milliseconds, so you could calculate the wind speed variance from that, where as the brain wouldn't, it would just recall that there was a mild breeze.
 
hornetstinger said:
I'm simply talking about single action, rather than multi-processing. The data send via the cable is a series of 0's and 1's, so I guess it's more of throughput.

I suppose you can work it out, if a SSD can copy 1GB in say 5 seconds, then how long would it take to enter in 1GB in binary.
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But in that scenario it's not just reading data, the brain has to receive input, process the data, decide which key to press, then send a signal to the hand to press the key, so there's some latency there, but that's acting like a full computer system, it's not just memory read speed, it's also input device, busses, cpu, ram and memory.
 
Very slow I'd guess but the human has to send nerve signals to the fingers to tell them what to do, reading or writing to a solid state disk from ram involves no physical movement so it's not really a fair comparison.
 
Making a few assumptions;

Human can press 4 keys a second (1, 0)'s, that's a data rate of 0.5 bytes / s
NVME drive write of 2500Mb/s = 2,621,440,000 bytes / s

NVME drive roughly 5.2 billion times faster than the human at writing the data.
 
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