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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: JaZZ Drive..
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 02:14:45 GMT
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- On 25-Jan-96 23:35:07, Vee Gibson was reported to have said:
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- >Actually, a SINGLE Jaz drive has a minimum sustained transfer rate of
- >3.5 MB/S (inner zone) and a Max sustained transfer rate of 7MB/S (outer
- >zone).
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- 3.5MB/sec and 6.7MB/sec and those are raw transfer speeds without any
- filesystem or operating system overhead.
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- >Two drives striped (using promax array) will give a minimum
- >sustained of 6.5 MB/s. Promax also offers a 4 drive array that will
- >easily do 10MB/S. Even two at a minimum of 6.5MB/s should fall well
- >withing your 6-9MB/s transfer rates.
-
- Nice theory. I've had two Jaz drives on a striped array controller since
- December. I know better.
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- pwright@crash.cts.com
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