On 9/16/09 11:02 PM, ah...clem wrote:
> HDST or HDTK or some other disk utility can be used to benchmark the
> sustained read and sustained write speeds of the drives themselves.
> as i said, unless you use a new drive, this will most likely be lower
> than the controller, and be the actual limiting factor.  choose the
> faster drive, and use whatever interface it requires.
>    
Thanks for your contribution to this thread. Am I to understand from 
what you've said that with age the speed of a drive declines, presumably 
from wear and tear. Or, from age of technology used in drives?
Also that it's irrelevant whether I use SCSI or IDE because it's the 
newness of either drive that will determine the speed, not necessarily 
the technology. If yes to all, I find this quite interesting.

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