Orlando Andico wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Michael Vincent K. Pozon - CompE wrote:
> ..
> >
> > there's a 20 GiGB ATA/IDE Baracuda speed which is about P7,200
> > cheap eh ? ... same speed you get with SCSI baracuda ( the real thing)
> >
>
> If you can find it!!!
>
> I was trying to find the 13.6GB Barracuda.. couldn't. Out of stock. 20GB
> then.. still nothing. I finally got a 28GB (one of the last ones in
> Greenhills, I might add). PhP 9,500 which isn't bad.
>
> The speed is significantly higher than UltraWide SCSI, I must say. I just
> used Linux hdparm(8) to measure the sustained transfer rate, it's almost
> TWICE my 9.1GB SCSI Barracuda on an Adaptec 2940.
>
> However: 1) you need a UDMA66 controller to get the maximum speed. 2) you
> still can't beat the scalability of SCSI (up to 4 drives only on the
> UDMA66 controller).
>
Gosh, so I really am incredibly lucky. When I decided to buy a new
computer early this year I got my hands on a 13.6GB Seagate Barracuda
(ST313620A) to go along with my EPoX G2 motherboard... Wondered why I
couldn't find any more when we were buying computers for the cafe.
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