Aha. I thought that 400 sounded a bit too good to be true... C'est la
vie.
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> From: Michael Tibor[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 11:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: U-DMA-66 IDE / RAID
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Stanley, Jeremy wrote:
>
> > I believe it is 66MBps per channel, but keep in mind that Ultra2
> SCSI
> > runs 80MBps per device and has been around for a couple of years.
> > Ultra3 is supposed to run around 160MBps. My U2/5-drive RAID0 has a
> > "theoretical" bandwidth of 400MBps
>
> Actually, that's 80MB/sec per *bus* not per device. Remember, your
> typical 32 bit PCI bus tops out at about 132MB/sec anyhow.
>
> Ultra3's 160 MB/sec would be nice, but I would think you'd need a 64
> bit
> PCI bus to do it right, and I've only seen those on Alpha
> motherboards.
>
> Mike
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