Re: Quad Spin CDROM Reccomendations Wanted

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From: David Charlap
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00

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Mike Smith <msmith@ars.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>Although not SCSI, I've had no problems with my Mistumi quad spin
>>IDE drive.  And, it would be cheaper than a SCSI drive.
>
>But they perform like dogs; PIO is not the route for superior IO
>performance. 

While you're right for hard drives, you're absolutely wrong for a
CD-ROM.  Even the fastest quad-speed CD-ROM drive is still only
transferring data at 600K/sec.  Cheap 8-bit PIO SCSI hard drives have
been known to get 5MB/sec.

While PIO may not get you the killer performance a modern hard drive
will demand, it's more than adequate to keep up with the speed of a
CD-ROM.

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From: david@visix.com (David Charlap)
Subject: Re:  Quad Spin CDROM Reccomendations Wanted
Date: 1995/05/01
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