On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 08:32:01PM +1100, dkwok wrote:
> My Raid-1 Pentium 100, 32M PC100Ram, Quantum LM20 7200rpm on HighPoint
> ATA100 IDE controller machine only can do 13M per sec. Is it normal? What

I guess so. Here the bottleneck may be the CPU, not the drive.

> are the factors determining the transfer rate?

It depends on controller and drive. With a decent Ultra/66 drive you can expect
20-25 MB/s, if the CPU can handle it. 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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