Re: TI-H: USB Link
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Re: TI-H: USB Link
In a message dated 8/20/98 7:25:49 PM EDT, tsaimelv@pilot.msu.edu writes:
> All this talk about interface speeds is practically irrelevant... If
> the media cannot be read faster than the interface, it doesn't matter.
> The way an IDE hard drive is manufactuered, it's not even designed to
> break UDMA limits. Most of them will burst to the cache at 50 to 100
> megabytes/sec anyways which is fine for 99% of applications. UWSCSI
> drives are made with tighter tolerances and for higher speed, so
> therefore the media can be read faster and therefore needs a faster
> interface. They're also better suited for networked environments.
> This is also why they cost more. A LOT more in some cases.
>
> Speed differences aren't due to limitations in the interface, they're
> due to the desired featrues and costs of manufacturing. It would be
> easy as hell to add another row of pins to an EIDE connection header
> and make it 64 bits wide @ 20ns with a 32 meg cache and blow SCSI out
> of the water and still retain ATA-4 compatibiliity, but there's no
> need for this so they don't do it. Who cares about the interface.
ha see >;)
Rob