Philipp Thomas wrote:
There's currently *no* ATA drive on this planet that even gets near that transfer rate (only between the drive controllers cache and the mobo). The best of the current drives get nearly 30 MB, but that's the most.
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ATA66 is mainly a marketing vehicle, invented to let ATA speeds approx. match SCSI rates on paper and to get users to upgrade their hardware.
Agreed. If you are looking into speed factors, todays (and even yesterdays) harddisks have transfer rates that are seldomly the weekest part of the speed chain. More ram and a better tuned processor/chipset combination. That's what you want. Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/