[comp.periphs] SCSI sync transfer rate

cgn@leo.UUCP (Chris Nieves) (07/29/89)

Concerning SCSI sync transfer rate: Don't believe anything!  Test the drive
yourself if you're concerned about speed.  There seems to be a lot of drives
out there that have trouble maintaining 4MB throughout the data transfer phase.
Or maybe I should say that nobody that we've seen can maintain 4MB data
transfers. It appears to be a buffer bandwidth problem.  The transfer rate
decreases further if you enable the Read-Ahead option that most drives support.


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