Gus_Rivera@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU (05/14/89)
Many posts ago, a quote from Andy Nicholas:
"PS-If none of you have seen the OKS Kache card and you have a need for high
speed disk i/o, please do so. The card they make does DMA to get the
info from the disk into the cpu, so it FLIES when it reads a disk (Hd,
3.5" drive, or 5.25" drive). It's so fast that when booting, it takes
roughly 13 seconds to boot into the system 4.0 finder from a 3.5"
drive! If it has booted before, then it boots from the cached image,
and only takes a mere 6 seconds to get to the finder. Check into the
card if you are a real "need-speed" person."
Well, I owned the 1 MB OKS Kache card for about 25 days or so, and the
speed quoted above is greatly exaggerated. Booting to the system 4.0 finder
from a 3.5" disk w/o any NDA's (except for the Cache NDA), took about
28 seconds or so. And booting from the 1 MB cache (warm boot) took
approximately 13 seconds. By the way, I returned the card ($550+) and bought
myself a 64MB SCSI hard drive for $768 (See the HomeBrew HD article in
A+ - April or May?). Just clearing things up :).
Gus Rivera