Re: Ultra SCSI Drives

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5hkmfh$9s2@urchin.bga.com>, Khym Mahn <khym@bga.com> wrote:
>I've not actually tried using a wide drive on my GS, but I don't see
>any reason it wouldn't work (besides the problem with RamFASTs not
>getting along with some drives).

   I think it'd be a bit of overkill, really. The RamFAST tops out
(due to GS bus speed limitations) at 1MB/sec. An ultrawide SCSI III
drive is supposed to be good up to 40MB/sec. [To put that in
perspective, that's about two seconds to copy a ProDOS
partition... *fast*.]

   However, 7200rpm drives with 8.5ms access times would probably
shave a bit more time off GS/OS booting. :)

Nathan Mates
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