hardw: OnStream 30GB 'floppy'-drive !!!

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Nick Shaffner wrote:
> >If transfer speed is 1Mb/s like I seem to read on the photo of the box,
> >that means it can only transfer 3600Mb/hour or 3.5Gb/hour.
> >Why did you double?
> 
>     I didn't double anything, I just saw the following statement on the
> front page of their web site:
>     "Up to 7GB/hour native transfer rate"
>     I think the question now is what did they double. (or halve)


the scsi2 version of the drive can transfer 7gig/h, ide can do 3.6gig/h
and the parallel port can do 2.5gig/h.


> >So if this is a tape backup, then it would be able to transfer stuff
> >2.5 times faster than my hard disk on MY COMPUTER. This looks fast
> >to me!


most hdds can do over 5meg/s. your isa controller is a bottle neck and
so is your 486. the cpu+bus needs to be faster than what the drive can
handle to get the most from the drive. for $80 you can pick up a
motherboard and k6-2 300 and your drive could be running 15 times
faster, not to mention everything else. :)