The Logic Off Topic list

At 09:27 PM 18/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
>From: Murray McDowall [mailto:murraymc@...]
>
>If anyone can acheive 100Mb sustained transfer rate with 4 IDE disk drives I
>will eat my copy of Logic audio (including manual, well actually, including
>manual quite gladly, in fact please someone, prove me wrong!).
>
>> The Adaptec and 3ware are higher end products $300 US -- but have fast
>> processors onboard so as to reduce CPU loading compared to the cheaper
>> models. They achieve over 100 MB per second sustained transfer in the
>tests
>> with 4 ATA drives which is the most they can use.

Have a look at the review -- www.storagereview.com
This site is a pretty reliable source of info on storage.

-- they got 109MB in one section of the testing. They said that they were
surprised that the PCI bus could handle it. Sustained transfer rates on the
latest 7200 drives exceed 40MB/sec for an individual drive BTW. They report
that the Adaptec 2400A device has full SCSI style command queueing (that is
the only word in English with 5 successive vowels).

Y'might get more joy directing your skepticism to the guys on that site who
ran the tests -- see what they say. A CD with a paper chaser --- hmmm --
not very appetising;-)

Regards,
Murray