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- From: "Stefano Agostinelli" <agos001@pn.itnet.it>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive...~500K transfer rate?
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 20:29:35 +0100
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- Mark Worden wrote in comp.sys.amiga.hardware about "Zip drive...~500K transfer
- rate?":
- > I recently bought an Iomega Zip drive and am using it on an A3000. I was
- > told the transfer rate can be as high as 1MB/sec, and was surprised to
- > learn (using SysInfo) that the actual transfer rate is only around 578K/sec
- > (the internal Quantum hard drive is about 755K/sec).
-
- Well SysInfo is quite old nowadays and never have been able to
- evaluate anything:you should really use something like AIBB,SSpeed
- and Disk/SCSISpeed.
- That said I've too an A3000 (030@25).Both the internal Quantum 52MB
- HD and the Zip rate at about 1MB/s (i'm quoting SysInfo speed results
- here).I'm using AFS and Kick 3.1.
-
- > Is there a way to increase this transfer rate? Does it mean I have to
- > invest in something like AFS, and/or a SCSI controller (perhaps GVP)?
-
- Just invest in AFS to have a 2x speed increase.A Zip with AFS installed
- rate about 1.1MB/s (real DiskSpeed result here) and that's is the maximum
- speed obtainable by the Zip.
-
- > Is there a cheaper (or free ;) alternative to these?
-
- AFS is fairly cheap.
-
- Cheers
- Stefano
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