Richard, the Rocket certainly has the spec for the job in hand There will come a time soon I suspect when Scratch disk type requirements will be handled by Ram type modules so speed issues will be a thing of the past, rather like Macs ( Duck !! ) Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Kenward" Subject: Re: [PRODIG] Fastest drive by far? Rocket Drive specs below. > > PERFORMANCE SPECS > Access time: 0.6μs > I/Os per second: 100,000* > Compliance: PCI 2.2 full > Capacity: 4 GB > Burst data rate: 132 MB/s > Sustained data rate: 80 to 100 MB/s > > Looking at 320 SCSI with a seek rate of around the 4ms range and a > maximum transfer rate of 320 MB per sec surely there simply is no > contest? These are I imagine internal transfer rates. However I would > be interested in knowing how important seek speed rather than data > transfer rate is when using a drive as a PhotoShop scratch disk. I am > appealing to the knowledgeable Prodigers to fill me in on this. > > Cheers > > Richard =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
