Disk Xfer Rates vs Bus Speed

[Terence Kelleher]

ESDI is an easy winner, if you compare 1 disk to 1 disk.  If you are
using more disks, SCSI provides the nice features of overlapped
operations.  2 disks, with seperate controllers, on the SCSI bus will
provide very near twice the throughput of 1 drive.  This is not the
case with ESDI.  Which is better really depends on wheter you care
more about overall throughput or single access times.


Terry Kelleher, Encore Computer
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Terry Kelleher, Encore Computer
UUCP: {bu-cs,decvax,necntc,talcott}!encore!terryk
Internet: terryk%pinocchio at multimax.ARPA