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

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From: Eric van Bezooijen
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <65ml7r$c22@mtinsc02.worldnet.att.net>,
Massa <someone@somewhere.net> wrote:
>NO drive can pump out 40 MB/s constantly. SCSI drives are a little faster,
>but from 10-20 MB/s is more realistic.
>

[ lossy compression ]

>>that's the reason people go scsi.  SCSI drives can do constant
>>transfer rates of 5, 10, 20 and 40 mb/s...
>>i think this is right.  i'm all for corrections ;)

The SCSI *bus* can do 5/10/20/40 Mb/sec.  Looking at a very fast hard drive,
the seagate cheetah, a 10,000 RPM drive, it's theoretical maximum xfer rate
is like 21 Mb/sec, but I'll bet in reality even 10 Mb/sec is rare ...

-Eric
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From: eric@godzilla.berkeley.edu (Eric van Bezooijen)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/02
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