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: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00

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Michael Wong <nospam_mikwon@ebtech.net> wrote in article
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> >> 1. The original question was "Is it possible to get 16MB/sec", the
answer
> >is
> >> no, no Hard drive can sustain that. Neither EIDE nor SCSI.
> 
> >Actually the Ultrastar 9ZX has started shipping and it sustains about
> >20MB/sec.
> 
> Not under real-world conditions.  You're talking about
> contiguous-block transfers on a nearly empty hard drive.  In the real
> world, drives are partially full and fragmented.

Contiguous blocks, yes.  Empty/full has nothing to do with transfer rate
except the drives transfer files located near the OD faster than those near
the ID.  Most workstation hard drives are not very fragmented.

Regards,

Ron Reaugh

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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: 1997/12/13
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