[ltp] Re: connecting an internal SCSI drive?

Victor Pechorin linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:36:47 +1200


On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 17:12, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> megabytes per second. With laptops routinely shipping "gigabit"
> Ethernet, where you can routinely see 40MB/second transfers, your
> statement is no longer true. :)
> 

I am not so sure about it. This statement may be true only on a linear
transfer of large files, for example DIVX movie... I think locally
connected SCSI drive, even via 16-bit PCMCIA will be better on the short
fragments. Random read/write operation will be significant better...