capacity-rate product

capacity-rate product

[kə′pas·ə·dē ‚rāt ‚präd·əkt]

(communications)

The product of the capacity of a data-storage device in gigabytes and the data rate in megabits per second.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.