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- From: ulv1@telepost.no (Arnulf Nielsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: How fast is an A530 SCSI controller?
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 18:29:58 GMT
- Organization: TelePost Public Access
- Message-ID: <778.6611T1026T2855@telepost.no>
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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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- >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've got myself a GURUROM to replace the original GVP,
- and my Quantum LPS540S now delivers 2.200.000 bytes/sec ( DiskSpeed 4.1 ).
- About the same speed with SysInfo.
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- I think the max transfer-rate is about 2,7 to 3,5 Mb/sec over the A530
- SCSI-bus.
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- Arnulf - A500/A530/'030/'882 - ulv1@telepost.no
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