Review of my Acard ARS-2000SUP SCSI to 2.5" SATA adapter

[mfilos]

Thank you so much for this extended review mate!

Indeed ACards are such full of win and I seen one more time a test of a SATA inteface on an Amiga! Cheers for that.


I used an 7220U with an 2.5HD also on my A4000 mounted on a custom bracket and except being so silent... it gave me a constant 18.3MB/s (measured in SysSpeed) although I need to alter my Max Transfer mask as well

[mfilos]

There is no such thing as expensive if you want nice solutions for your loving machines.
The fact that IDE exists for example on A4000 doesn't compare with the awesome speedup and less CPU usage by using SCSI interface.
As mousehouse said, SCSI is awesome but it's noisy and also power hungry. For putting cheap and 2.5" HDs ACards are an awesome solution that work just fine.

Btw SysInfo gives a bit less results but I always known that SysSpeed was more trustworthy than SysInfo when it comes to drive reading numbers.

For example in my setup...SysInfo gives about 15.7MB/s while SysSpeed gives about 18.3MB/s. Still a great deal of difference comparing to the internal IDE @ 2.5MB/s don't you think?

[mfilos]

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there is no amiga or hardisk controller for the Amiga which can offer 18mb/second transfer speed
maximum on the Amiga are 7 or 8 mb per second on Phase 5 scsi controllers
so you are lying or you are drunk loi...
do not use syspeed to test hardisk speed use sysinfo or diskspeed v4 on aminet

Apparently you have no idea about CSPPC/CSmk3's UW SCSI controller mate.
Theoretically it can reach up to 40MB/s and I seen screenshots of UW HD's at 24MB/s.
Mine is UW SCSI but I putted a simple Ultra SCSI ACard that bottlenecks the speed to a max of 20MB/s.

Check my whole blog post here: http://mfilos.blogspot.com/2011/08/a4000-putting-all-together.html

and you can see the screenshot @ the end.

So... next time, better be sure and more polite before you accuse someone of lying or being drunk.
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Sorry for the OT reply. Mousehouse again... thanks again for this interesting review.

[mfilos]

Man seriously... You must be right. We're all wrong for using these utilities for years now, so I rest my case

[mfilos]

I'm right of course....18mb per second is a  total exaggeration.....why do you not post a sysinfo screenshot instead ?
 because  like you said ...it will give you  small numbers and you do not like it
that is not honest or real

I don't care about numbers tbh. My system is very fast and that is all I care about.
I didn't post SysInfo screenshot cause it's an really old and outdated utility, and most people will agree that is not accurate comparing it with SysSpeed.

If I remember correctly the reading on SysInfo was between 14 and 15MB/s (which is lower than 18.3 but a lot more than the max 8MB/s that you said).

I'll post a screenshot once I get back home just to end this crap talk

[mfilos]

Awesome results there Kawazu!!!
I ordered some time ago the UW ACard so I'm hoping for some better results as well

Oh damn! You used SysSpeed as well! It's not trustworthy! LOL