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From: khr@tpcs.bad.se (Krister Hansson-Renaud)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI and performance
Message-ID: <c8Lu4B1w165w@tpcs.bad.se>
Date: Thu, 20 May 93 14:36:23 CDT
References: <1993May17.190905.3462@gandalf.ca>
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> I don't think that IDEs are available for Amigas yet, are they?

Sure they are, the Amiga 600HD (and 1200?) use IDE disks and you can
buy IDE controllers for A500.

> even approaches this potential. The potential in an IDE might
> be lower than a SCSI's potential, but so far they are pretty
> equal in the real world.

Most IDE-drives I've tested have 700-1100KB/sec transfer rate compared
to 1200-2000KB/sec SCSI-drives usually have.  And under a real OS like
UNIX or OS/2 that use advanced features like bus-mastering, mailboxes,
command queueing etc you get even better performance compared to IDE.