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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:

>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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