Disk Performance Issues

[Josh Paetzel]

> http://www.dartek.com/printablespecs.cfm?ItemNo=79374
> 
> This claims my ATA/100 drives are capable of sustained data transfer of 52.5 
> Megs/sec.  I don't think that's very accurate...most of the benchmarks I've 
> seen are in the 20-30 Meg/sec range for modern ata/100 and 133 drives.  5 
> Megs/sec is NOT normal performance however.  These numbers I'm throwing about 
> all refer to susstained transfer rates on large files.
> 
> Josh


Ok, internal tranfer is just from platter to platter inside the drive and not 
relevent to what I'm looking for.  My bad.

Josh