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- From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
- Subject: Re: Can SCSI Transfer Rate be Increased??????
- References: <jim.725144057@pi-chan> <1992Dec24.005457.2257@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 13:57:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.005457.2257@netcom.com> gasman1@netcom.com (David A. Silva) writes:
- >Jim Lick (jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu) wrote:
- >
-
- >
- >: That is probably true. ISA SCSI boards don't vary much as far as
- >: throughput is concerned. You could get faster response times by
- >: using a caching controller, but your transfer rate probably would
- >: stay about the same. It's also likely that your drive already has
- >: its own cache.
- >Jim
- >I don't know about this. I am running an Adaptec 1542B on an ISA system
- >with a hard drive comparable to the Rodime being compared, and the
- >slowest transfer rate I got was 1800 KB/s, and with tweaking of the
- >bus-on/off times and the DMA transfer speed, I've gotten it up to
- >2800-3000 KB/s. I have a friend with the EISA Ultrastor, and he is
- >getting around 8000 KB/s with the internal cache turned off on the HA.
- >
- >David
-
- That's astonishing... 8000 Kbytes/sec?
-
- Surely, the transfer rate from a hard drive is limited by
- the rate at which bytes can be spun under the heads and presented
- for reading. Let's assume there are 64 sectors per track (there are
- probably fewer than that and it will reduce the xfer rate below what
- I am about to calculate). Each sector contains 512 bytes. Also,
- let us assume that the drive spins at 3600 rpm (which is 60 revs/second).
- The rate at which bytes are spun beneath the heads, which is the
- maximum prolonged transfer rate, is therefore:
-
- Max xfer rate = 64sectors/rev x 512bytes/sector x 60revs/sec
- = 1920 Kbytes/second
-
- Therefore, to achieve 8000 Kbytes/sec transfer rate, the drive
- rpm would have to be at least 4 x 3600 = 14,400 rpm and no drive
- I know of spins that fast. Or there would need to be 4 x 64 =
- 256 physical sectors/track and no drive I know of has that many sectors.
-
- So I am mystified as to how the extraordinarily high xfer
- rates you quote can be achieved.
-
-
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