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Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> writes:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Does the data sheet for your disk indicate that it can in fact write
> > much faster than that?
> Well, the HP/Compaq webpages are full of marketing speech wrt that, but
> since these disks are U320 disks, they should perform better I think.

Check the data sheet.  I *strongly* doubt your disks have an internal
transfer speed much higher than 65 MB/s.  The external transfer speed
has nothing to do with it, it only controls how fast you can fill the
disk's cache and free the bus for other transactions to other devices.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org