🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:55:25 GMT, bob@lintilla.demon.co.uk (Bob
Cousins) wrote:

>In demon.tech.pc, Zypher wrote:
>
>>UltraDMA (the latest standard-forget EIDE also known as Ultra ATA or Ultra
>>33) can give a 33mb/sec transfer rate...but in real life its about
>>20mb/sec-not bad.
>>
>>If you want real speed-go with Ultrawide AV SCSI or higher like I have
>>(true 40mb/sec contionous, used for video capture, servers and the like)
>
>It's funny how people with SCSI systems often seek to put down EIDE, and at the
>same time make ridiculous performance claims for SCSI. Maybe its because they
>have paid twice as much for their disk storage, and feel a need to justify its
>cost, even if by inventing performance figures?
>
>If the Seagate Cheetah can do 14-21 MB/sec, I doubt you are seeing continuous
>40MB/sec. The fact is in a typical workstation, SCSI offers little or no benefit
>to the overall performance of the system. If you don't believe me, see
>http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/report/r960702a.htm.
>-- 
>Bob Cousins, Software Engineer.
>Home page at http://www.demon.co.uk/sirius-cybernetics/


Hey! I'm a long time SCSI enthusiast, yes I grin when moving drives
between PC, Macs, and SGIs, yes I grin when I have a fully populated
chain (I'm one of those that know how to actually use 7 devices), yes
I grin when my database apps fly, and yes I have recommended many to
buy IDE when their use did not justify the extra cost.

Personally I'm waiting to 7200rpm UDMA