Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down | From | Daniel Egger <> | Date | 29 Jun 2003 15:14:25 +0200 |
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Am Son, 2003-06-29 um 12.24 schrieb Mr. James W. Laferriere:
> > Which are 300Mbytes/minute, still faster than many tapes. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 5MB/Sec is faster than MOST tapes drivs ? Or ??? > If you are talking older scsi-2 or 1 drives yes . > But on a properly tuned system any of the newer tape drives s/b > able beat that hands down .
To cite a popular manufacturer directly from the homepage: "... and a data transfer rate of up to 5 megabytes per second"
Please note the "up to" and that this drive is an affordable latest generation ADR streamer.
Last time I looked the speed was still specified per minute since they are (were?) so slow. Also note than an iPod has a data transfer rate of 5MB/s, modern drives (even when crammed into an USB2/Firewire casing) beat that by a magnitude yet are a whole lot cheaper than a good streamer.
FWIW: The streamer in my office is in the happy 100MB/m (compressed) league.
Streamers are only interesting for lots of data, for normal use they're not only too slow but also too expensive.
> I'd like to see a raising hands that have this functional at > anywhere near line (60% is close enough) rate ?
Check tomshardware or whatever magazine you prefer to read. Modern cases (like the ones with the Oxford chipsets) deliver almost the same performance as a built-in controller.
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