The best sustained read/write data transfer rates I could attain were about 20 MB/sec with an ATTO UL/2D LVD SCSI card and a pair of WD 18 GB LVD drives attached with all the appropriate cabling in my G3/466 equipped 7500.
I suspect a good IDE card with appropriate hard drives would perform as well.
The other consideration is reliably. I have heard SCSI's are more resistant to drive failure; another question to consider.
how did you test for that speed of data transfer ?
and thirdly the ATA 66 card that I have doesnt work well with all motherboards, you get staggering audioplay from the ide drives
on some NOT ALL powermacs - this is not occuring to any specific model, sometimes it does sometimes not, I have an 8500 and a 7500 in the attic that couldnt take it, unless you use software to lower the ide diskspeed, and that just makes it strange. I have various 7300,7600, 7500 that CAN function with soundfiles without any problems.
the ATA 133 or 100 is said to not have this disadvantage.
If you work with soundfiles and only have one mac to fit it in stick with a factory new 133 ?
I also use an LG burner on my ATA 66 card priced about 60 dollars, and it works great.
L
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