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From: miron@cs.sfu.ca (Miron Cuperman)
Subject: Re: Disk transfer rates
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.074743.12851@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Simon Fraser University
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 07:47:43 GMT

fwhite@bbn.com (Fred White) writes:


>Disk                            Transfer rate (read)
>--------------------		--------------------
>Micropolis 1588-15 		1.2MB/s
>QUANTUM LP105S			926172 bytes/s
>FUJITSU M2263S-512		841499 bytes/s		(SCSI-2 mode)
>FUJITSU M2263S-512		771374 bytes/s

The quantum 210 does:

disk name: QUANTUM PD210S
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
Disk utility

disk> read
starting block? 0
# sectors per transfer? 16
number of transfers? 1000
sector increment? 16
16384000 bytes in 12537 ms = 1307581 bytes/s

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	By Miron Cuperman <miron@cs.sfu.ca>