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- From: ivar@jd.se (Ivar Nilsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re:How fast is an A530 SCSI controller?
- Message-ID: <823508516WIR0.20.4b@jd.se>
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 09:21:56 CET
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- sborden@genesis.nred.ma.us (Steve Borden) writes:
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- >I'm interested in upgrading the hard drive in my GVP A530 and I'm wondering
- >what the maximum date transfer rate of the A530 SCSI controller is. (In other
- >words, I want to know if I upgrade to a drive that can do, say, 2 or 3MB/sec,
- >will the controller be able to take advantage of the extra speed.)
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- I don't remember the speed I have on back home, but it's definitly worth getting a bigger & faster HD
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- >The Maxtor 7120SCS (120 MB) that I now have, reads about 988,000 bytes/sec
- >measured with SysInfo. I'm wondering what performance other A530 owners
- >get using other drives.
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- I think (lousy memory) that it's up to ~2,5M/s, so it's worth it
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- >Appreciate any feedback,
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- You got it
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