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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:26:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   SyJet -vs- Jazz
Message-ID:  <199704180426.XAA17212@argus>
In-Reply-To: <199704180309.MAA21105@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 18, 97 12:39:46 pm

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In reply:
> Jim Bryant stands accused of saying:
> > has anyone done a side by side comparison of SyJet [1.5G] and Jazz
> > [1G] using bonnie or iozone using ahc?  given that they are the same
> > price here [$399 internal, $120-129/cart], i'm leaning towards the
> > SyJet...  i've also heard that the flap/door thing on the Jazz
> > internal model is really flimsy too, plus the SyJet claims faster
> > real-life sustained throughput ["up to 7 M/S", that's as good as or
> > better than my 2G scsi-2 barracuda]...
> 
> I haven't busted the door on my Jazz yet, and it gets quite a lot of
> use.  OTOH, I've had one cart die on me (media error) and another grow
> at least one defect (I'm not sure if it's successfully mapped it,
> although it claims to do ARRE and AWRE).
> 
> I haven't had a chance to play with a SyJet yet, but I would suspect
> that their 7M/sec "sustained" is SCSI throughput, not media
> throughput.

they claim that the scsi xfer rate is 20M...  [up to] 7M is what they claim
for ACTUAL..

jim
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