On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:
> Okay, I've got some math to do, but the drive won't be pulling 66 MBps
> all the time right?
Correct. Mechanical issues come into play.
> I assume that there exists the possibility of a
> bottle neck if you're pulling something across your (pci) ethernet card,
> dropping it on the new ata66 hard drive (connected to the new pci ata66
> controller) while watching TV via my pci wintv card and playing quake
> with my pci video card and pci 3d card.
Well, that's quite a stretch, but yeah, that can happen. The ATA66 is
really the biggest potential bandwidth hog here, I think. It uses 50% of
your available bandwidth at peak volume. BTW, peak volume really doesn't
happen.
> I guess it's time to get an agp video card...
It might speed things up, I don't know. I am running a PCI video card
with one ATA66 HDD and two SCSI HDD's. It doesn't seem to be a problem.
I mostly presented the details as a brain exercise, to sort of give you
the feel for what goes on under the hood.
>
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> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
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