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- From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: Who makes VESA local bus motherboards?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.053049.5144@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Reply-To: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <1992Sep05.182115.2790@zeos.com> <pg65pkg@zola.esd.sgi.com> <pjvgi5c@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 05:30:49 GMT
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- In article <pjvgi5c@fido.asd.sgi.com> pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close) writes:
- >
- >Even ISA is faster than all but the fastest hard drives. ISA can do up to 4
- >megabytes/second, whereas most hard drives are in the 1-2 MB/s range. This
- >means that wether your hard drive controller is on the ISA bus or local bus,
- >your hard drive performance will be the same.
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- But if you have a caching controller, then you may be able to get much higher
- apparent transfer rates than the physical disk transfer rate.
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