From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 26 08:43:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA29060 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:43:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA29053 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:43:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 6138 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Jan 1999 16:43:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:43:08 -0500 (EST) From: Vince Vielhaber To: FreeBSD Questions cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: SCSI-3 vrs. ATA In-Reply-To: <199901261600.KAA22909@mail.netsys.hn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, FreeBSD Questions wrote: > -- [ From: FreeBSD Questions * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > > The SCSI drive is faster - it has an 80MB/s burst transfer rate. The ATA > has > > only 33MB/s burst rate. > > According to the Quantum Spec Sheet on the Web http://www.quantum. > com/products/hdd/fireball_se/datasheet.html > the speed for the ATA is 33.3MB/s and 20MB/s for the SCSI-3 > > I'm sorry to insist with Quantum but here that is the only choice I have. If this is going into something that's going to be worked so hard as to need that kind of transfer rate, an IDE won't last. In less than 90 days I destroyed one and it was only keeping the history file on a news feeder. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message