IO91461@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Tom Nezwek) (06/24/91)
I'd like to add that GVP's new SCSI host on their 33mhz accelerator
is also a disappointment. (As someone else in the room yells "Junk!")
Its got the easiest prep software available which is nice, but its
performance (can I say it? yes.. Ok) sucks! Its supposed to be
sicko high-end because its DMA direct to the accelerator's 32bit ram,
But my microbotics hardframe leaves it in the dust even though it has
to go through the 16bit bus. Numbers?, yes I better give them or some
of those people who spend their whole life writing frame email to get
their jollies will swamp my account.
Ok.. I used the same hd partion to get these figures.
Diskspeed3.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hardframe 37 create GVP 35 create
45 open/close Host 42 open/close
410 scan SCSI 60 scan (did gvp go to
445 delete 90 delete sleep here?)
256k buffer 1,453,621 read 1,012,340 read (~450k slower)
1,214,640 write 954,581 write (~250k slower)
Now some of the "lamer flamers" out their will say "But its still
faster than a floppy". I say who cares? The performance sucks! I do
like the accelerator tho. Its too bad Commodore doesn't make a 33mhz
030 card that will hold 16meg on the card.. :-( If they did, I'd rather
have purchased theirs over GVP's. So to sum it up, GVP's host scsi is
pretty lame compared to the hardframe 2000.
-Tom Nezwek
PS: for those scratching their heads because they can't get figures this
high... I'm using Maxtor's new 340meg 3.5" scsi drive.