Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?

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From: Michael Wong
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:00

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>> 1. The original question was "Is it possible to get 16MB/sec", the answer
>is
>> no, no Hard drive can sustain that. Neither EIDE nor SCSI.

>Actually the Ultrastar 9ZX has started shipping and it sustains about
>20MB/sec.

Not under real-world conditions.  You're talking about
contiguous-block transfers on a nearly empty hard drive.  In the real
world, drives are partially full and fragmented.

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From: nospam_mikwon@ebtech.net (Michael Wong)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/11
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