extreme testing

[chewy]

and I thought corn and I did some wild stuff

 

some guy from nippon

http://dvd-r.jpn.org/mdb/index3.html

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

He/she is running optical drives on what looks to be a RAID card or similar. I can?t imagine how much fun that would be.

[chewy]

cheap raid card flashed with non raid(hacked?) ide bios

 

of course I prefer a case that doesn't require a furniture dolly to move

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

Or onboard RAID controllers. Makes no difference either way given the amount of problems we?ve seen over the years with optical drives plugged into non-IDE/non-scsi controllers. Putting a crappy CD/DVD reader/burner on a controller that?s ATA133 seems a bit pointless.

[chewy]

they seem to have found the trick over at cdfreaks, way over my head

tho

 

just like getting usb2 to do over 15x? I can only get 12 MB/s myself

Edited April 16, 2006 by chewy

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

Yeah but it?s still pointless. 16x is what? 20-ish MB/sec? ATA133 has theoretically got 133MB/sec (funnily enough) in burst mode or whatever the hell it?s called. Realistically, 50-75MB/sec with good HDs and other good h/ware.

 

My point........ why plug up a slot that can handle many, very fast harddrives with something as crappy as a DVD burner? What a waste.