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Old 21st July 2008
tad1214 tad1214 is offline
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
I seem to be able to get 48-50MB/s transfer rates on my 5400 rpm, 40GB ATA drive... unlikely to have a lot of hardware cache.

100Mb/s is 100 Megabits per second, 12.5MB/s.
1000Mb/s is 1 Gigabit per second, 125MB/s.
The reason I say is for things like
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...GR-4FEK5N.html

Quote:
# Sustained data transfer rate: 12 to 20 MB/sec
# Actual performance varies based on many factors and is often less than the maximum possible.
Which 12MB/s is still 96Mb/s but, that assumes no seeking/competition for the HDD.

edit: Just one more ?, have you verified that there are no speed or duplex mis-matches? That will kill through put.

Last edited by tad1214; 21st July 2008 at 12:41 AM.
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