Well, it depends...What are the rpm speeds of the two drives?
This would, of course have some bearing on the speed at which the drive
functions/the speed at which data is transfered btwn the bus and the hard
drive.
~justin~
on 9/19/01 12:23 AM, James Morgan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here is an interesting one. Setting up New 40 GB Maxtor hard
> drives in my G4/733 I found that the one hooked to a Sonnet ATA-66
> PCI/IDE card writes zeros at least twice as fast as the one hooked to
> the onboard IDE port.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why there would be such a large
> difference in the time this operation takes? Or, more importantly, is
> this an indication of the seek or access speed of the drives?
>
> If so, the onboard IDE on my G4/733 is only half as fast as
> the Sonnett card IDE.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> MacSheep
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