Moaning about the speed of your Hard Drive in your Mega STe, is much like buying a 1930’s Ford and complaining there’s no
BlueTooth connectivity: You’re an idiot. However, it is interesting. In my Mega STe I have a USB storage via my NetUSBee, an
Ultrasatan external and SCSI2SD adapter on the inside, connected to a traditional Atari SCSI adapter. So, how do they
compare in speed?
Using AHPT 94 we got the following results:
Mega STe Storage Comparison
Storage
Short Files
Read/Write
Medium Files
Read/Write
Long Files
Read/Write
Access Time
SCSI2SD
30KBs/2/KBs
294KBs/34KBs
469KBs/316Kbs
19.9mS
UltraSatan
38KBs/7KBs
425KBs/124KBs
775KBs/330/KBs
14mS
USB (NetUSBee)
3KBs/0KBs
27KBs/9KBs
32Kbs/28KBs
235.7mS
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My Private Computer Nostalgia
3DO ATARI MEGA STE ATARI FALCON AMIGA 1200 PC ENGINE NEO GEO AES SINCLAIR SPECTRUM +3 ATARI JAGUAR SONY PLAYSTATION
The late 1980s and early 1990s were my personal golden age of gaming. I like tinkering with them, I like seeing what they can do and I like making a website.
So here we are.