Re: ZipGS and RamFAST Questions

["Seth D. Kadesh" <thes+@CMU.EDU>]

It's a good thing I'm in a good mood now, or I might say some nasty
things about people who don't know what they're talking about....

dpfarrer@CAP.GWU.EDU (Daniel Pfarrer) writes:
> There are 2 kinds of RamFast SCSI cards, the RamFast 256k will transfer
> around 256k per second of data off your harddrive, a RamFast 1MB should
> transfer around 1MB of data per second.

Not!
The amount of data that is transferred per second is more of a
function of what type of machine it's connected to.

I'd quote from the owner's manual, but I can't find it.  But from
memory, I think a //e maxes out at about 512k/sec, while a GS maxes
out at about 1MB/sec.

Changing the cache size just makes things run a little faster.  (More
specifically, the larger the cache is, the less often the computer
will have to go to the disk for the information - with a few
exceptions.)


> A ZIP GS will speed up the CPU speed (e.g. the time it takes to think,
> pull down big menus from the apple menu bar, etc...) You can order many
> different zip GS's, it all depends on the speed, I have a ZIP 9 MHz/64k, a
> fairly fast one, you can go up to 15Mhz I believe.

This at least is correct.
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