[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] HD data transfer rates

bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben Scott) (04/13/90)

I have a question for CATS hardware folks or anyone else in the know:  Why
are hard disk interfaces on the 500 or 1000 slower than they are on the 2000?
Case in point:  Commodore A-590 is supposed to be electronically identical
in every important respect to the 2091, yet the 2091 can achieve much faster
transfer rates.  This seems to be a universal trait, but I can find no logic
or rationale behind it. 

Signed, a puzzled A-500 owner (and maybe soon-to-be 3000 owner!):

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grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (04/14/90)

In article <3541@pikes.Colorado.EDU> bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben Scott) writes:
> I have a question for CATS hardware folks or anyone else in the know:  Why
> are hard disk interfaces on the 500 or 1000 slower than they are on the 2000?
> Case in point:  Commodore A-590 is supposed to be electronically identical
> in every important respect to the 2091, yet the 2091 can achieve much faster
> transfer rates.  This seems to be a universal trait, but I can find no logic
> or rationale behind it. 

It should be pretty much the same as long as you have some fast memory in
the A590.  I'd expect you probably do in the A2000...  

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