[comp.sys.amiga] Speed of Hard Drives

erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) (03/14/88)

I would like to point out in this discussion of "my drive's gonna go 600Kb/sec
under FFS" that this comment only applies to SCSI drives and other very
expensive alternatives.  I am not disputing that there exists a drive and
controller combination which will pump 600Kb/sec under FFS, but I am
curious about the _cost_ of such an arrangement.  I would love to have the
money to go out and buy an 8Mb A2000 with a Fujitsu Eagle on it (450+ Mb),
but I don't now and probably never will.  I think a more reasonable comparison
would be with the 2090 ST506 interface, the Supra and C-Ltd drives, since these
are probably the most common drive configurations.  It's nice to hear that the
2090 SCSI will top out at 600Mb/sec, but what about the rest of the world?  I
would like to see before and after numbers for all the other options as well.

-ethan

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