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- From: robin@jytol.fi (Kimmo Hamalainen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help with transfer rate??!?!?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 09:34:21 GMT
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- >On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Steve Powell wrote:
- >> I used to avoid the Seacrate 2.5" IDEs, they, like the similar IBM
- >> and Western Digital drives, are (were) just amazingly crap, I've seen
- >> them go as slow as 180Kb sec. Trouble is the damn things are not even
- >> me I was wrong, and you'd had fine service from Seacrate and the like.
- >> modern 3.5" drives from the same manufacturers are fine (except IBM who
- >> tend to make drives that go bang in the night, too often for my liking).
- >Well, 180KB/s sounds very fast for me. That is because my Hitachi
- >DK211A - 00G1 486MB harddisk makes only 80KB/s (in words: eighty!!) :-((.
- >I am using a CD32/SX32 combination with 4MB Fast-Mem, and it has
-
- I have A1200 (030/50MHz) and two Quantum harddisks 3.5" (850MB & 1080MB) and
- both drives gives me over 2MB/s. I'm using IDEFix package, before IDEFix my
- drives speed was 1600-1900K/s. Back in 1991 my old A500 & A590 (42MB Nec)
- speed was 1MB/s.
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- Kimmo
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