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

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From: Keith R. Williams
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:00

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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 19:00:53, bob@lintilla.demon.co.uk (Bob 
Cousins) wrote:

> In demon.tech.pc, Ron Reaugh wrote:
> 
> >Workstation performance is dominated by sustained transfer rate and not
> >access time.
> 
> I think that's completely untrue. Only in very few situations do you get
> conditions where sustained transfer rate would be dominant. i..e where you are
> doing sequential accesses with large transfer sizes. Typical workstation access
> is random access with relatively small transfers. It only takes a few seeks to
> some other part of the disk to screw sustained rate.

I tend to agree.  Intel asserts that this randomness is far worse
than the disk makers claim and therefor very much over rate their
drives.  In fact they state that the specs on drives are next to 
meaningless (or worse).  

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  Keith R. Williams
  krw@ibm.net

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From: krw@ibm.net (Keith R. Williams)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/09
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