On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Duane Clark wrote:
> 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.
agreed. I have seen the benefits of an all scsi system while burning
CDROMs, but at this point I don't think that's even an issue anymore with
newer CDRW drives with large caches. sigh. I also used to justify using
scsi because these machines become servers sooner or later, but as you
just pointed out, I may never see the benefits there either (except limits
on the number of devices etc)
Thanks for all the feedback.
charles
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