Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!rutgers!mcnc!ncsuvx!news From: rcb@ccpv1.cc.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Maxtor Tahiti Performance? Keywords: 1.2 GB optical, read/write speed Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 90 20:16:58 GMT References: <6592@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 32 Directly from section 2.1 of the manual that comes with the drive: C/C format ZCAV format 512 bytes/sec 1024 bytes/sec 512 bytes/sec 1024 bytes/sec -------------------------------------------------------------- Cap. 297.6 Mb 326.4 Mb 464.7 Mb 511.3 Mb per side seek time average 35 msec 35 msec track 1 msec 1 msec max 70 msec 70 msec latency 13.6 msec (2200 rpm) Transfer rate from/to disk 6.78 Mbits/sec 10 Mbits/sec (6.78 Mbits/sec - 13.17 Mbits/sec) Scsi (async) 1.5 Mbytes/sec Scsi (sync) 4 Mbytes/sec MTBF 30,000 hours -- Randy Buckland North Carolina State University rcb@ccpv1.cc.ncsu.edu (919) 737-2517