Charles Galpin wrote:
> I'm not trying to play dumb or anything. I realize it's newer technology
> which has higher maximums. I guess I'm really just surprised that a
> controller/disk combination which is supposed to have a maximum rate of
> 80MB/sec only gets 13 MB/sec in practice :(. I paid way too much for that
> stuff when I bought it too :)
The limit on the speed is likely the sustained transfer rate of the disk
your are using, and 13 MB/sec is pretty typical as far as I know. So if
ever in the market for another disk, try to get the sustained transfer
rates of the particular disks you are looking at, though this is often
hard to dig up. IBM disks tend to be very good in this area (and I think
their disks are generally pretty good, for that matter).
The place where the high transfer rate really helps is if you have a
disk array. Unfortunately, as you are discovering, I think it is hard to
justify the much higher price of SCSI for use on a single user desktop
system.
Duane
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