Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?

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From: Ron Reaugh
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:00

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Keith R. Williams <krw@ibm.net> wrote in article
<pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-SPgxduDgGt8b@ALEX>...
> On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 04:41:20, nospam_mikwon@ebtech.net (Michael 
> Wong) wrote:
>  
> > What's serious speed?  Ron Reaugh thinks that serious speed is a high
> > transfer rate irrespective of seek times, latencies, and all of the
> > multitasking optimizations in SCSI drives and controllers.  But the
> > problem with this argument is that any application which truly NEEDS
> > high disk performance is also going to be one of those "rare"
> > applications that needs SCSI's particular advantages, even on a client
> > workstation.  The rest of the garden-variety apps don't need SCSI's
> > particular advantages, but they don't even need high-end EIDE.
> 
> I couldn't think of speaking for Ron.  There are "rare" 
> applications where the worst case performance must be guaranteed.
>  Very few WIntel workstation users see this.  I've added my *one*
> counter-example to this before - DV.  This requires some serious 
> SCSI UW performance.  It cannot be done no-how, no-way with IDE. 

A number of folks are reporting otherwise in rec.video.desktop.

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From: "Ron Reaugh" <Ron-Reaugh@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/19
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