I used to have one of these in my machine room and used to be impressed
with the 3 MBS transfer rate but not so much with the 5 MB capacity. I
don't recall the price but I think it was a multi-million dollar
machine. Absolutely required though for fast virtual storage.
<http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_2305.html>
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Oops, that's SATA, not STAT.
>
> While I'm at it again, in 1,048,576 byte MBs, that's 88.5MB/sec.
>
> Looks like what I said from the HDTune tests earlier in this thread was
> pretty accurate:
>
> "So at least for read speed, the 5x raw spec is optimistic for this
> drive. On the other hand, 85.4/27.2 is still 3x. To date, I've only
> filled part of the 1.5Tb drive, so I am still seeing something like the
> 90 MB/sec part of the curve."
>
> Yup, right around 90MB/sec., depending on he size of the megabytes.
>
>
> Moose wrote:
>> OK. My backup drive arrived. I installed it today. I copied 527,945,113,600
>> bytes from one Seagate 1.5TB drive in the computer, attached to the MB STAT
>> header to an empty, identical drive mounted in
>> the eSATA docking station. Time to copy it all using SyncBack was
>> 1:34:51, = 5691 sec.
>>
>> That's 92.8MB/sec., in marketing megabytes. However you look at it, it's
>> LOTS faster than USB 2.0 HSE.
>>
>> Moose
>>
>
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