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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:43:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vince Vielhaber <vev@paprika.michvhf.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd@netsys.hn>
Cc:        "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SCSI-3 vrs. ATA
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901261139470.5904-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901261600.KAA22909@mail.netsys.hn>

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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.
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