on 4/11/02 11:29 PM, (PowerBooks) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Cameron Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Compact Flash RAM success > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bruce Johnson at "Apr 11, > 2 11:27:10 am" > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:54:29 -0700 (PDT) > >>> Are these real HD's? If so and you use it as VRAM, like I am the flash >>> memory, it won't even come close speedwise. With the flash memory as VRAM, I >>> can hardly tell the difference between it and real system RAM, whereas, >>> using the HD for VRAM, things are _really_ slow, because of the difference >>> in lookup times. > >> I suspect the drive in your PB is old, slow, and massively fragmented. >> >> IBM advertises these things as being faster than flash cards...it's got >> a sustained I/O of over 4MB/sec. > > Yes, but what is the seek time? That may be more relevant. ---------- Yes, that's what I was talking about. I think any modern drive can transfer data faster than the controller allows on many machines, its the seek time that seems to slow things down.
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