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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard disk transfer rates
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Date: 19 Sep 90 01:38:02 GMT
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In <2253@impch.imp.com>, rumbo@impch.imp.com (Peter Kunz) writes:
>>The best DiskSpeed performance figures I have seen on an A2000 are about 1.5
>>MegaBYTES/second.
>>
>HOW????

By using the right drive.

>is this a bare bone a2000? 
>i have a standard a2000b with 4 megs 16 bit ram added, an a2091 and a quantum
>105s. after adding 256k of buffers to each partition i get 640 kb/s. can this
>be improved?

Yes, but you will need to spend quite a few thousand dollars on a drive capable
of VERY high transfer rates. I don't know the manufacturer or model number of
the drive, but it was a beta version of a new drive from a well known company.
The figure was reported on a thread on Bix.

-larry

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