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SubjectRe: Me & my IDE (problems)
Matthew R. Briggs wrote:
>
> A.J.Martin wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 7 May 1998, mlord wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > High-end (price and performance) SCSI is still much better
> > > than EIDE, if you can affort the exotic components, but mostly
> > > just because the drive makers don't yet sell 7200rpm or 10000rpm
> > > drives with EIDE interfaces.
> > >
> >
> > FWIW Seagate have fairly recently released some 7200 rpm EIDE drives,
> > one is the Medalist Pro ST39140A, they are advertised in the UK
> > for about 250 pounds (+vat).
> >
> > Alex Martin
>
> Hello,
> I just built a dual PII-333 system to run Linux and BeOS on (BeOS
> doesn't support SCSI yet) using a 7200RPM Seagate Medalist Pro 6.5 gig
> drive. It is very, very fast...hdparm -t generates numbers around the
> 13,500KB/sec range. I don't have the exact numbers with me now. It was
> quite inexpensive, also!
>
> Matt

Might be somewhat dated, but in '94 I could test 11.5MB/s on a Quantum Fireball 1.1GB
with 82KB cache doing PIO 4 on QDI 486-100 VLB MB/50Mhz bus (AMD cpu) with QDI
disk-I/O. Same disk wouldn't do more than 6.5MB/s on a 66Mhz PCI MB! (33Mhz bus)
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