What is your HD setup/transfer rate?

[Corrie]

I am interested to find out who has gotten some great transfer rates with their existing Amiga setups. I would like to hear from people who have tried 10000rpm / 15000rpm SCSI hard drives on their Amiga.

I'll start off by saying my IBM 9Gig Ultra SCSI HD transfers at 13Mb/Sec on my Cyberstorm MKIII. I have ordered a 147Gig 10000rpm U320 HD (due to arrive this week) so I am hoping to start breaking the 30mb/sec mark.

Anyone else care to add their experience?

[DoomMaster]

Sounds like you are just bragging to me.  Why do you need these transfer rates and what do you actually do with it?  Is it just an ego trip?  My Seagate SCSI harddrive transfers at 30 Mb/sec, try to top that!  My Atari ST transfered data at 10 Mb/sec back in 1988.  BIG DEAL, SO WHAT, WHO CARES !!!!     :-D

[zipper]

I have some 18 and 36 GB 10k and 15k disks and their speed hover around 30 MB mark; some other users have reported a little over 30 MB. As the theoretical max of the interface is 40 MB, there isn't much point to try to squeeze the last speed drops by overspeccing the disks.

[CU_AMiGA]

He! He! The faster the better! :-)

[duesi]

I have about 3.8MB/s with my A4091 and a Quantum
2 Gig (SCSI II) HDD...
Probably I can go faster with a modern SCSI-Drive
But I won't because I have a silent miggy now

10000 rpm HDD are noisy and I only use them for servers...(Who cares about the noise in the server room)

@DoomMaster can you stay away from here ?
I'm getting sick from your annoying posts/replys
Thanks

[Piru]

Anyone else care to add their experience?

I've got 9.7MB/sec with BlizzardPPC SCSI2, by using IDE HDD (various) and Acard AEC-7720U SCSIDE. This is very close to theoretical maximum.

My Pegasos gives peak performance of 37MB/sec by using Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (ST3120026A) 120Gig HDD.

[itix]

Anyone else care to add their experience?

About 30MB/s on my Pegasos with Seagate Barracuda ST380021A (80GB,
7200rpm). Ultra ATA is awesome, arent it?

[itix]

Oops, not an Amiga setup in strict sense but mentioning A1200 IDE
benchmarks is not worth of laugh.

[Cyberus]

@Piru

I've got 9.7MB/sec with BlizzardPPC SCSI2, by using IDE HDD (various) and Acard AEC-7720U SCSIDE. This is very close to theoretical maximum.

That's is the first I've heard of this - very interesting. Not only does it allow fast transfer speeds, but also use of cheaper HDDs. Cool

[DaNi]

On my A1200 060 with fast scsi II with asyncron mode the maxium speed on my system is 10,3mb/s and my ide with ide fix splitter+buffer 3,8mb/s

[carls]

A1200, B1260: ~2MB/s from both internal IDE and X-Surf IDE (both 3-gig 3.5" IDE disks).

[lorddef]

A distant memory but I think my quantum bigfoot was getting around 7Mb/sec on my powerflyer. The interface manual said it could do up to 16mb/sec, but I'm guessing thats with an 060 and a nippy hard disk

[DoomMaster]

To duesi:

@DoomMaster can you stay away from here ?

I'm getting sick from your annoying posts/replys

WHAT ?!     :-o

[Ferry]

Hi, DaNi!

I have also an A1200/060/SCSI (but only 50MHz, not 80 :¬) and I was wondering why are you using asynchronous mode, while synchronous mode would give you better speed. At least, with my old 2GB Quantum Fireball I get nearly double the speed with synchronous mode than without it. Could you please explain it?

Saluditos,

Ferrán

[KennyR]

48MB/s on my Pegasos.