Date: 3:55 pm Tue Nov 7, 1995 Number : 48 of 60 From: Arioch Base : Commercials To : Stranger Subj: Re: Seagate 1.08
A> 3mb a second!??!!?!?!?!? That's just plain bullshit... If it was only A> running at 3mb a second then the system was fucked or the drive was bad out A> of the factory.. maybe that's why they are going for 315$.. With the WD 1.2 A> or 1.6gb drives they do 11mb per second if they are setup correctly.. almost A> any drive on a DX4 (PCI) will do at least 10mb per second, without any A> software caching involved. S> S> He is talking like sysinfo and I'd sure like to see you have a drive rank in S> sysinfo at 10/11 mb/s... I know I have never seen it... that is data transfe S> rate...
If the drive is installed correctly and either the MB or the IO card drivers are installed correctly you will get up to 11mb / second.. this is on a Western Digital 1.2g Caviar