Disk transfer speed for isa pcs

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From: Roger Smith
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 00:00

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Our company has a number of Compaq Deskpros which have a standard IDE 
controller on an ISA bus.

I recently got hold of a couple of 540Mb Maxtor 7540 AV drives to evaluate,
since I would like to move our applications off the Netware server and 
have them running locally.

I had sort of assumed the the 540s would be faster than the standard 120Mb 
and 240Mb drives which are currently installed - but no.  Using the
transfer rate diagnostics availiable on Simtel etc I am getting throughput
of about 750KBytes/S for the 540s and nearly 1MByte/S for the others. 

Is this the sort of x-fer rate I should expect?  Which *cheap* 540Mb drives
could improve on this?


Regards,
-- 
Roger Smith

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From: Roger Smith <Roger@rs32.demon.co.uk>
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Date: 1995/07/04
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