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<DIV><SPAN class=170584321-11062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>73mb/sec seems pretty normal for a modern pata drive. I get the same
readings out of my 500gb ide drives.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=170584321-11062008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-steve</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Mike Dodge<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:43
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Discussion about mythtv<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mythtv-users]
Do I gain anything in Myth by upgrading myGraphics
card?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, belcampo <<A
href="mailto:belcampo@zonnet.nl">belcampo@zonnet.nl</A>> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=Ih2E3d>John Drescher wrote:<BR>>> I'd better buy fast
before IDE is a thing of that past!<BR>>><BR>>> (Is IDE much
slower than this new S-ATA?)<BR>>><BR>> Current SATA drives
(Seagate 7200.11) have > 100MB/s str. While I have<BR>> not seen a ide
drive break 1/2 of that. Some people say there is no<BR>> difference in
speed but I can tell the difference.<BR></DIV>My PATA MAxtor
320GB<BR>/dev/hda:<BR> Timing cached reads: 1160 MB in
2.00 seconds = 579.39 MB/sec<BR> Timing buffered disk reads:
220 MB in 3.01 seconds = 73.17 MB/sec<BR>
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<DIV class=Wj3C7c>><BR>> John<A
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<DIV><BR>I don't know a lot about this stuff, but those numbers seem pretty
high. Are you sure about that?
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