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From: edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Wren V 94181-702 installation
Message-ID: <680020@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 90 03:41:30 GMT
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Henry Kwan writes:
> >
> >Your numbers are interesting.  We have two cubes here with both Maxtor
> >and Wren drives installed.  We get the same numbers you do for the Wren,
> >but for the Maxtor we get:
> >	16384000 bytes in 27515 ms = 595565 bytes/s
> >

> That's even more interesting, considering that Wren V full height drives are
> rated at 12-16 Mbit/sec (depending on which "zone" you are on).  It's a real
> screamer compared to most other SCSI drives.

I was under the impression that this very respectable speed is well beyond the
(current) capabilities of SCSI (-1).  Is anyone seeing this performance across
SCSI?

Ed "in search of high/sustained disk i/o throughput" McClanahan