From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 07:56:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7619837B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D3C43F85 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h6VEtx5i088476; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:55:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200307311455.h6VEtx5i088476@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030731105150.I85113@alpha.yumyumyum.org> To: Kenneth Culver Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:55:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:56:08 -0000 It seems Kenneth Culver wrote: > > What I find fascinating is that Maxtor's site never actually tells you > > the true throughput of that disk anywhere. > > http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/desktop/diamondmax_plus_9/ > > Almost none of the hard disk manufacturers do. In fact I've never seen > "true throughput" numbers from ANY manufacturer. Maybe not, but they do give a transferspeed from medium range and that is what can be expected. -Søren