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- Contact: Judi Canter, Public Relations Manager
- Linda Haury, Director of Marketing Communications
- 901 Broken Sound Parkway NW
- Boca Raton, FL 33487
- Telephone: (407) 994-5585
- AppleLink Address: D0686
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- Rodime’s New Software Driver Enhances Read Transfer Rates of Cobra™ Hard Disk
- Drives by 40 Times the Standard
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- BOCA RATON, FLA.--January 17,1990--Rodime Systems today introduced a
- proprietary new software drive for the company's Cobra series of high-capacity,
- 3.5-inch Winchester disk drive products that results in dramatically reduced
- access times and increased read transfer rates an average of 40 times faster
- than the standard 5KB per second.
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- Designed to improve the interface between Macintosh computers and Rodime's
- Cobra disk drives, the software enhances the Cobra drives' caching ability,
- which ranges from 16K to 48K and allows the disk drive to predict which piece
- of information the user will want to use next. Using a new algorithm, it
- increases the availability of the user's data in "instant access" RAM (Random
- Access Memory). Product performance was evaluated using industry standard
- benchmark tests with the Cobra 45e operating on a Macintosh IIci, using a 1:1
- interleave.
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- The Cobra internal and external high-capacity disk drives include 45,70,100
- and 210MB of storage, 18ms access time, and SCSI interface. According to
- Timothy E. Mahoney, Vice President and Director of Sales and Marketing, the
- Cobra drives have secured a significant place in the market.
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- "Response from our customers to the Cobra product has been tremendous, in
- terms of market acceptance and performance," Mahoney says. "It is our premier
- product, and we are committed to providing enhancements that enable Cobra
- 'power users' to gain faster access times and greater performance from the disk
- drives."
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- Currently, the software is being shipped with all Cobra disk drives.
- Present owners of Cobra drives may receive the upgraded software by returning
- the current diskette to Rodime's Technical Support department (901 Broken Sound
- Parkway N.W., Boca Raton, Florida 33487) with a self-addressed, stamped disk
- envelope mailer. For more information on upgrades, call (407) 997-0774.
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- Rodime, a unit of Rodime PLC headquarters in Glenrothes, Scotland, designs,
- manufacturers and markets 3.5 and 5.25-inch hard disk drives and storage
- subsystems for the OEM and retail markets worldwide. An acknowledged leader in
- the disk drive industry, Rodime developed the 3.5-inch Winchester hard disk
- drive, now considered the industry standard. Rodime is the largest third-party
- supplier of hard disk drives to the Macintosh® market.
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- The company maintains engineering and manufacturing facilities in Scotland
- and Singapore. Engineering, retail assembly, sales and marketing, and North
- American repair and service are located in Boca Raton, Florida.
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- RODIME DRIVER PRESS RELEASE - BENCHMARK COMPARISON
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- 3.5-inch 40MB DRIVES
- BENCHMARK COMPARISON
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- RODIME
- COBRA™ 45e CONNER MINISCRIBE QUANTUM SEAGATE SONY
- (RO3058T) CP-340 M8051S PRODRIVE™ ST-157N SRD-2040Z
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- Diskbench
- Read 22 304 414 296 301 403
- Write 301 390 415 295 300 401
- Access 164 164 127 19 121 121
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- Disk Timer II
- Read 0 42 47 30 35 46
- Write 36 49 48 29 34 44
- Access 0 22 16 1 14 13
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- Diskbasher(10MB/Random)
- Read(Write) 25.46 47.96 50.35 29.58 36.93 34.46
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- SCSI Evaluator(10K-60KB)
- Read(Average) 179,355 4,687 3,704 28,027 5,666 4,488
- Write(Ave.) 5,583 3,733 3,624 6,201 5,651 4,508
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- SCSI Evaluator(50KB-100KB)
- Read(Ave.) 222,710 4,408 3,445 6,208 5,481 5,265
- Write(Ave.) 5,857 3,792 3,338 6,275 5,512 5,225
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- Seek(ms) 18 27 29 23 31 29
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- •Lower is better on all benchmarks, except SCSI Evaluator
- •All drives tested on a bare Macintosh® IIci, using System 6.0.4.
- •Cobra 45e formatted with Cobra Driver Utility, version 1.03b3
- •All other drives formatted with generic driver software.
- •All drives at 1:1 interleave.
- •Seek times tested using SCSI Evaluator.
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