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NO drive can pump out 40 MB/s constantly. SCSI drives are a little faster,
but from 10-20 MB/s is more realistic.

Arnold H Lee wrote in message <347e2211.14435328@news.wam.umd.edu>...
>i think this is only for internal disk transfer of small files and
>only for a short period of time.  I don't know whether this applies
>for all drives, but for IDE, date transfer rates over extended periods
>of time NEVER approach the "theoretical" output...ultraDMA drives
>don't actually do 33 mb/s CONSTANTLY.
>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 ;)
>
>On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:50:57 GMT, midigard@aol.com (Midgard) wrote:
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>>For months I've been listening to my brother boost about how lightning
>>fast his standard EIDE hard drives are.  Claims it all depends the
>>motherboard's controller on how fast a hard drive can get, up to the
>>maximum rated speed for that drive of course.  Right now I'm using a
>>486 VIP green Mainboard (M919) w/ an AMD P75 cpu & have *never* gotten
>>more than 1,870 kb/sec using my Seagate ST-3851A HDD.  But you're
>>always hearing about how these drives are capable of 16 MB/sec data
>>transfer rates.  In a few weeks, I'll be upgrading to  a Socket 7
>>mainboard with either an Intel 166MHZ MMX or AMD K6 166MHz.  But I'd
>>like to keep my present drive & want to know once and for all if it's
>>actually possible to get the maximum rated speed for these "older"
>>EIDE drives?  Is it, in fact, the controller on the motherboard that
>>determines data transfer rates with hard disks?
>>
>>Best,
>>Midgard
>>
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