On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, belcampo <<a href="mailto:belcampo@zonnet.nl">belcampo@zonnet.nl</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">John Drescher wrote:<br>
>> I'd better buy fast before IDE is a thing of that past!<br>
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>> (Is IDE much slower than this new S-ATA?)<br>
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> 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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> John<a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank"></a></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I don't know a lot about this stuff, but those numbers seem pretty high. Are you sure about that? <br>
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