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

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From: Michael Salem
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:00

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I wrote:

> One other point related to economics: maufacturers usually bring out their
> latest improvements in SCSI first (for the same reason books are first 
> published as expensive hardbacks), so a leading-edge SCSI drive is likely 
> to be better than the latest EIDE.
 
Keith R. Williams wrote:
> Maybe, but the real money is in the mass market IDE arena.  I see
> some pretty impressive stuff here.  The SCSI arena may be the 
> cream, but the money is in the cheese.

Whatever the _reason_, I think it's still true that the very latest and 
best SCSI drives have better specification than the vl&b EIDE drives.
This is a practical point (what must I get for the very best performance?), 
unrelated to the relative merits of SCSI & EIDE.

Best wishes,
-- 
Michael Salem (email: use "Reply" command, or mgs at michaels.demon.co.uk)
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From: 4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk (Michael Salem)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/14
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