Any ways what is showed here is that there is very little difference between the two controllers when it comes the performance of a single hard drive which means that you people out there who are thinking of getting a 80Mbit/sec controller should only do so if you plan on getting another SCSI hard drive with the same speed or higher in terms of external transfer rate. But that 13 seconds difference is nice but definitely not worth buying a SCSI controller that’s most then twice the price of the Fireport 40 unless your one of those speed freaks. Another thing that I should mention is that the Fireport 40 even though it’s about 13 seconds slower seems to be more consistent when it comes to it’s transfer times.

Please note that I only have one SCSI drive or otherwise if the data was moved between two drive physical drives the Tekram DC-390U2W should put up numbers that are twice as good as Diamond’s Fireport 40 but overall the times would be a lot higher cause then it’ll be an external transfer and not a internal.

Showed below is the time it takes for each configuration to delete 345mb’s worth of data(3,343 files, 40 folders). Times are in seconds:milliseconds.

     Well with less then a one second on average difference need I say more?

     Showed below is the time it takes for each configuration to load Starcraft. Times are taken in seconds:milliseconds.

Again with less then a one second difference I think my point has been proven. The only think that I could think of that would explain the difference would be in the time it takes the SCSI controller to communicate with the system ram but other then that I’ve can’t think of much else cause I’ve turned almost everything off when I did these tests in order to eliminate background operations and CPU usage.

Well with very little performance difference between the two SCSI controllers when you use one hard drive I don’t see any reason why anyone would want to spend the extra money on a 80Mbit/sec controller over a 40Mbit/sec controller unless your planning on putting more then one SCSI hard drive into your computer. So in the end, the thing I would recommend for all your SCSI freaks out there would be to spend the extra money on a hard drive with faster internal transfer rates then on a faster SCSI controller. I mean even if you do get two or more SCSI drives how much data are you going to move around any ways and are you really going to watch like 3 or 4 movies at the same time on your  monitor?

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