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Article #608Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
From: Scott Cooper
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:00
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> > 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. > Yes, but you're not talking about professional quality results, you can't get 6MB/s or higher video out of an EIDE drive, that requires SCSI (although it doesn't need UW, Fast SCSI-II is adequate). For hobbyists and home video, 3MB/s or less is adequate, and the better EIDE drives are fine. A professional Non-Linear Editor is a very time-critical application, and I know of none that don't use SCSI. -- Scott Cooper Seehorse Video seehorse@earthlink.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,aad589958d8c66fd X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,aad589958d8c66fd X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,aad589958d8c66fd X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,aad589958d8c66fd X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,aad589958d8c66fd X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public From: "Scott Cooper" <seehorse@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive? Date: 1997/12/19 Message-ID: <01bd0caf$43fe6ec0$0500a8c0@k6-233> X-Deja-AN: 308643904 References: <348c422b.31666353@news.demon.co.uk> <881691095snz@inf-eden.demon.co.ux> <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-bmRtSYdnH0CM@ALEX> <3498a647.4325910@news.ebtech.net> <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-SPgxduDgGt8b@ALEX> <67d4es$ntk@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> Organization: IndyNet - Indys Internet Gateway (info@indy.net) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,demon.tech.pc,alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc