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: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 00:00

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Jason <jneus@prodigy.net> wrote in article
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> 
> 
> jake@binghamton wrote:
> 
> > The physical limit for transfer rate of today's HD is about 15mb/sec.
No HD
> > can sustain a rate higher than that.
> > 33MB/sec of UDMA and 40MB/sec of UWSCSI are theoretical limits.
> > Do your home work and don't brag your scsi here.
> > It's a waste of money if not used as multitasking server.
> 
>     Are we a little hostile?    I don't have a degree in computer
science, but
> let me share what my impressions about SCSI are.  I will agree that most
drives
> (EIDE vs. SCSI) are fairly equal in real world performance.  However, I
was
> under the impression that since SCSI interfaces only use a fraction of
the CPU
> cycles that IDE interfaces use, SCSI devices are preferable when doing
CPU
> intensive operations, as the controller handles most of the work without
the
> CPU's help.

Busmastering EIDE levels that playing field.

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: 1997/12/02
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