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- From: Ian Henry <ian_h@pentland.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help with transfer rate??!?!?
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:45:19 GMT
- Organization: None
- Message-ID: <371265954wnr@pentland.demon.co.uk>
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- In article: <4ebsut$cr5@news2.widomaker.com> vortex@widomaker.com (Bradley Leffler)
- writes:
- >
- > I've recently replaced my 85 meg Maxtor 2.5" IDE with a 200 meg Seagate
- > 2.5". Problem is my transfer rate used to be ~950-1000k/sec with the
- > Maxtor and now the Seagate crawls at ~200k/sec... What in the world is
- > wrong with the drive? Can this problem be corrected? I can't live with a
- > drive this slow!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >
- I had an 85 meg drive in my 1200 and nothing I did would get better than
- 200k/s. I managed to get a second hand 120meg cheap and swapped them round
- transfer rate is now ~950k/s.
- Looks like some drives are just slow.
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- Ian Henry ian_h@pentland.co.uk
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