From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 10 07:34:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11977 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 07:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11963 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 07:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA06555; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:33:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <361F7012.60C13628@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:32:50 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which IBM IDE disk? References: <19981010184749.Y3369@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > I've looked at the IBM web site, and I can't find any significant > difference between the three series. They all have a 9.5 ms average > positioning time, the same average latency, the same rotational speed, > a 512 kB buffer from which the firmware steals a chunk, the same > interface, and documents which are laid out completely differently > just to confuse me. Does anybody know a reason I should shell out $31 > more for the DTTA? > > Greg Hi Greg, I think the DS16 has a much better media transfer rate compared to the DS8... The DS16 also has a faster sustained data rate (13 to 8Mb/sec for the DS16 vs. 10.2 to 5.8Mb/sec for the DS8)... I guess it depends on how much the $31 extra is worth to you... ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message