🚀 go-pugleaf

On 13 Mar 1995, MATTHEW TIPPETT wrote:

> In article <3jme1s$2nh@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>, md.brown@ix.netcom.com (Mike Brown) writes:
> > I just purchased and installed a Maxtor 7850AV drive and have to say
> > that I am quite disappointed in the performance. I did not expect
> > 11.11mb per sec but 2 - 3Mb per sec seems reasonable to me since my old
> > Conner CFS420 managed that with my current hardware (dx4-100, promise
> > 2300, 8Mb ram, PCI board).  I haven't been able to get better than
> > 1600kps with this slug.
> >
> The EIDE HDD which I have seen (mainly WD) give around the same benchmarks,
> but to be able to help you more I need a bit more information,
> Using the WD Drive Rocket Utility you can observe specs that range from
> 800 kps for 512 byte blocks all the way to 5500 kps for 64 kb blocks.
> The above test gives 2100 kps for an average throughput.
> 
> > --Mike B.
> Matt
> 

My brand new Western Digital AC2700H (730mb) gives 1.5Mb/s with a 
bog-standard EIDE VL card and no drivers. If I load the I/O card driver, 
I get 2.2Mb/sec. I haven't tried Drive Rocket yet.

James
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