Re: New HD ? for B&W G3 Rev.2

[Jonathan Newman]

It's important to realize though, that although a drive may yet well 
indeed be rated with a maximum transfer rate of 133, or 100, in all 
actual life, the speed varies depending on usage. It mostly resides 
around 50 to about 75. So, 66 would be a good place to chill. 33 is 
slow, but it's not terribly slow. If I recall, the beige G3s just have 
ATA controllers, not Ultra ATA, so their speed is about half as fast as 
the B&W. Those are the ones that ~really~ need to speed boost! The 
cache doesn't directly adjust speed for random accessing of files. But 
If you run a file on the Hard-Drive very often, it'll run mostly from 
the buffer, that will increases speed in that situation greatly. 
Probably the number one thing you can do to get more performance from 
your Hard Drives, is to increase their seek speed. That involves track 
seeks, and Rotations per Minute. Put in a 7200 RPM drive, you'll see a 
big difference.

 - Jonathan
On Aug 9, 2004, at 8:16 PM, Stewart, Brian C wrote:
Oops sorry its 33 MHz... WOW... I guess I'm going to go and buy that 
sonnet
IDE controller card. Sorry for the miss information. But I was correct 
on
one point. The 2 MB or 8 MB cache on the IDE disk drive will make 
little to
no difference. I was sure my B&W had a 66 MHz ATA controller on 
board...

Thanks for correcting my mistake

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