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 Subject: RE: Internal or external harddisc for Falcon?
Author: The Paranoid (kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE)
Date:   02-26-2002 10:54

I am afraid that does not hold anymore. By the time the Falcon was released i guess SCSI was generally faster than IDE drives.
But by now i am pretty sure that IDE is at least not slower than SCSI on the Falcon.
While IDE is only limited by the memory/bus access of the machine (which is already slow enough on the Falcon), SCSI is also limited by the controller - and the Falcon's SCSI system is not really fast. Just about fast enough for hard-disk recording but then really operating on its limit.

Besides that, IDE is easy to speed up by installing a Bus-speeder while SCSI in the Falcon hardly benefits from that.

Some values for what transfer rates you
usually get with a few Atari machines:

- Atari TT (old): up to 2.4 MB/sec
- Atari Falcon (IDE) : around 2.0 MB/sec
- Atari Falcon (SCSI): around 1.8 MB/sec
- Atari MegaSTE(SCSI): below 1.2 MB/sec
- Hard&Soft SCSI HA: around 1.4 MB/sec

Those are of course only vague values. Please don't mail me if your system is faster. ;-)
(Those are real transfer-rates based on the BIOS as Hard&Soft SCSI tools gives them out. CHECKHD and RateIt will give higher values).


The Paranoid
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 Internal or external harddisc for Falcon? new Jos 02-25-2002 11:53 
 RE: Internal or external harddisc for Falcon? new The Paranoid 02-25-2002 13:05 
 RE: Internal or external harddisc for Falcon? new Wayne Martz 02-25-2002 21:09 
 RE: Internal or external harddisc for Falcon?  The Paranoid 02-26-2002 10:54 
 RE: Internal or external harddisc for Falcon? new Jos 02-26-2002 12:20 
 RE: Internal or external harddisc for Falcon? new Wayne Martz 02-26-2002 19:41 

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