> On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:25:21PM -0400, Nat Lanza wrote:
> > alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> >
> > > > frames per second. This means a sustained rate of roughly 10MB per
> > > > second. Lossy compression would falsify the results and is thus not
> > >
> > > Thats about the bandwidth of a disk
> >
> > Er, what? That's less than half the bandwidth of a good
> > top-of-the-line SCSI disk these days; look at the spec sheets for
> > something like a Seagate Cheetah -- the spec sheet at
> >
> > http://www.seagate.com/disc/pdf/cheetah18_36.pdf
> >
> > claims a transfer rate of 18-28 Mbytes/sec.
>
> Hmmm ... how long this stays at this value for a 2 Gig file
> read or write at *once*?
I've been able to sustain 17MB/s on ST318275LW (barracuda 18lp).
Two of them software striped did 32MB/s on a single UW scsi channel
(bt958)
>
> Werner
>
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