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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (40948)	12/19/1997 6:45:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

OT to Andy Once again, Thanks for all that you wrote, but I knew almost all of it already. It doesn't address my primary assertion. <If WinBench report avg 5MB/sec then the HDD probably can do max 7-9MB/sec> Agreed, but how many apps will run under the conditions that will allow this speed? The Winbench only had ONE that reached that number. Most were significantly less than 5MB/sec. And when you do backups, which will be the most sustained use of a HD, it will be a lot slower. The raid 0 test used dual stripes. That's what it took to get the 5MB/sec. <this is just another invalid "actual testing"> You turned it around. It is I who does not trust anything I see in tech specs until confirmed by ordinary users. They can shuffle the data around internally all they want, it's how fast it gets out over the bus that counts. I don't know what other people's systems are capable of, but mine is pretty much the match of any consumer-available hardware and would not impose any significant bottlenecks. Over and over, I've seen bogus results passed off as average user performance. That's my point. This is getting boring. Let's call it off. I'll continue to believe these specs are figures derived from non-consumer equipment run under a myriad of special conditions designed to maximize results (e.g. only using the outer track of a disk) - i.e. meaningless numbers, unattainable even to high end users in any normal user application. I've adopted the "Chevy" theory of benchmarking adopted by ZD's Winbench. You are into nitromethane fuel injected funny cars. I think we can agree to disagree. OK?