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To: Stitch who wrote (113)	11/11/1998 1:02:00 PM
From: Kevin Linder	Read Replies (1) of 1989

How about this Stitch; The amount of data that the Hard Drive has been storing has increased rapidly in the last few years. However, the data transfer rates on the desk top segment has not been increasing as rapidly. The Ultra DMA 33 was introduced about a year or so ago. Before that the best data transfer rates were about 15 MB/SEC. CPU's have stalled, partially because of the bottleneck speeds of the Motherboard and Bus speeds. Last year the fastest CPU's ran at 233-266 MHZ. If I remember correctly the only reason why the 400-450 MHZ machines can operate efficiently was the introduction of the 100 MHZ Bus Motherboard. For many years the top speed of the Motherboards was 66 MHZ. (I believe I heard that there is a multiplier effect of 3 1/2 or 4 needed between the processor and Bus speeds). The Bus Speed, Video data rate, and other things have slowed the progress of the PC. Included in this is the slower data transfer rates of the older hard drives. INTC recognized this fact and has been dumping money into the venture capital market to speed up the video cards, bus speeds, memory speeds, etc. I notice a big difference between the data transfer rates of my older PC and my new computer with a ULTRA DMA 33. This year has seen the implementation and development of Ultra DMa 66; Ultra3 SCSI; and Gigabit Fibre Channel. It may just be a layman's opinion that the data transfer rate development has lagged the increases of the CPU market. I don't think this will continue in the future. The market was very quick to adopt Ultra DMA 33. The bigger program size of Windows 98 and other suite software will demand that speed start playing a more important factor in the future. How's that for a nontech evaluation of the market? Kevin Linder

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