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to: Grant Beattie
from: Hamish Moffatt
date: 1995-03-04 17:06:00
subject: PRICE LISTS

Hello Grant!

Thursday March 02 1995 06:48, Grant Beattie wrote to Gareth Burton:

 GB>>> He bought a WD and it is *SLOW* as hell, and NOISIER than my old
 GB>>> seagate 40mb!!
 GB>> How can you call 10ms average access; slow.
 > I didn't. The data transfer rate is only about 1.4mb/sec!

Controller or bus speed problem. My Western Digital 730mb with a
QD6600-based controller gets 1.7mb/s, 8.9ms access.


Regards,
Hamish

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