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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (40793)	12/19/1997 12:26:00 PM
From: Michael Coley	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: Slow SparQ and CPU Speed. >>To be fair, you should also mention the qualifications he uttered about his system not being up to par, along with your opinions on the performance. << >> He did not mention how much RAM he has, and his rather slow CPU doesn't help either. Not to mention W95, which as he states eats up lots of computer performance just by itself. When we see a more diverse accounting of SpArQ's real world perfroamce tests, then a more balanced judgement can be made. Thank you.<< Actually, a P133 is a pretty typical PC configuration. I would guess that this is at or above the median speed of installed PC's. A peripheral shouldn't need the latest 300mhz Pentium II to run at a decent speed. I agree that more testing would be useful. I did point out that this is the first report I had seen on the EIDE SparQ speed. - Michael Coley - i1.net

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (40793)	12/19/1997 12:37:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Rocky, this is exactly what I have posted about SparQ when those ridiculous performance numbers were splayed all over the SYQT thread. Namely, the average Joe's PC won't get anywhere near those numbers. They are akin to "peak power" specs in amplifiers, attainable in time slices measured in milliseconds. Furthermore, IDE, being CPU intensive, imposes even more constraints. I think his 800K+ speed is going to be typical. I would be surprised to see anyone get more than 1.2M/sec out of any SparQ drive, no matter what the interface or pentium CPU. When it comes to disk manufacturer's specs, my rule of thumb is to divide their so-called "sustained rate" by 2 and assume it is a best case scenario.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (40793)	12/19/1997 12:37:00 PM
From: Linda Pearson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

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