tim@ggumby.cs.caltech.edu (Timothy L. Kay) (10/12/90)
I have an application that needs fast throughput from the disk. The disk doesn't have to have an MS-DOS file system on it; I don't mind reading directly to the hardware. The question is, what is the fastest configuration, given that I don't want to spend money on a special purpose (e.g. disk array or parallel transfer) subsystem. Should I move to IDE, ESDI, or SCSI? Which disk? How fast is your disk system? What machine, what controller, and what hard disk? (Please email and I'll summarize.) Tim