Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!taurus!leo!cgn
From: cgn@leo.UUCP (Chris Nieves)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: SCSI sync transfer rate
Message-ID: <211@leo.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 89 16:57:45 GMT
Organization: ICL North America, Irvine, CA.
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Concerning SCSI sync transfer rate: Don't believe anything!  Test the drive
yourself if you're concerned about speed.  There seems to be a lot of drives
out there that have trouble maintaining 4MB throughout the data transfer phase.
Or maybe I should say that nobody that we've seen can maintain 4MB data
transfers. It appears to be a buffer bandwidth problem.  The transfer rate
decreases further if you enable the Read-Ahead option that most drives support.


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