But there are some really good things to keep in mind:
- anything >10MB/s sustained is pretty darn good by recent standards.
It wasn't too long ago when you couldn't buy anything that fast,
at least not at PC prices.
- it's easy to predict drive performance over the next few years.
the big thing is increasing density. The performance boost
is almost secondary, but follows as a direct result of increased density.
Jan Edler
NEC Research Institute
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote:
> For example, IBM's Deskstar 25GP and Deskstar 22GXP list the sustained data
> transfer rates as 15.5-8.7MB/sec and 17.9-10.7MB/sec, respectively. Nowhere
> near the theoretical maximum of the UDMA/66 interface, or the UDMA/33
> interface, for that matter.
>
> Methinks people are expecting too much from these drives without knowing the
> real specifications (and limitations).
