Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Jun 1998 17:28:56 +0000 | From | Monz <> | Subject | Re: Me & my IDE (problems) |
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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) -- Best regards, Mogens Valentin. Networking & Programming Web Site: http://www.danbbs.dk/~monz/ mailto:monz@danbbs.dk or mailto:monz@usa.net Danish Linux UserGroup: http://www.sslug.dk/ Support Open Source: Use Linux & Netscape "Lord, give me today my Linux login" ++Monz
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