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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: A1200 Internal IDE Transfer Rates
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 01:07:30 GMT
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- In article <4ghevv$dro@lut.fi> Heikki Pora <pora@lut.fi> writes:
- > >Can someone tell me how many Mb/sec I should be getting with my A1200's
- > >internal IDE port connected to a Conner 250meg 2.5" harddrive?
- > >using DTA (available on Aminet) it reports Im only getting about 800k/s.
- > >This sounds way too low. Im using AFS and 300 buffers.
- >
- > I got about 700kb/s with my old 82mb 2.5" Quantum, and now my 1gb 3.5" Seagate
- > gives me about 1500kb/s.. so 800kb for your drive seems rather OK.
- > (I used DiskSpeed and SysInfo for the tests.)
- >
- > IDE drives on an A1200 aren't very fast... :(
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- Funnily enough, the fastest IDE drive I've ever seen on an Amiga was on
- an A1200. It was a 2.5" Toshiba 810Mb unit and gave 2.4Mb/sec. The
- Toshiba 2.5" 520Mb units also give this same speed. As yet, I have not
- found a 3.5" unit (IDE) that gives the same speed on my A4000.
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