Performance
BlueSCSI supports Fast SCSI up to 10MB/sec synchronous.
When tuning for performance there are a few factors to keep in mind:
- The rating, brand, and wear of your SD card can significantly impact performance.
- The SCSI drivers (especially on a Mac) can make a huge difference. FWB has the best performance on Power Macs, but is not universal so is not included on pre made images.
- If an image file is fragmented on the SD card performance will be much slower. You will see a warning in the log file.
If you are adding your own result to this page you MUST include the SD Card brand/rating and testing tool. Ones that don't will be removed.
| Machine | Drivers | SD | Tool | Read | Write | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PowerMac 9600 | FWB | SanDisk Extreme 32GB A1 | FWB Bench | 8.6 MB/s | 7.3 MB/s | On internal Fast Bus |
| Beige G3 | FWB | WD Purple 32GB UHS-1 | SCSI Dir 4 | 3.3 MB/s | 2.9 MB/s | Internal Narrow Bus |
| Beige G3 | 8.1.4 | Sandisk Extreme Pro 64 GB UHS-3 | SCSI Dir 4 | 9.5 MB/s | 6.1 MB/s | Adaptec AVA-2906 PCI |
| LC 475 | 7.3.5 | Sandisk Extreme Pro 64 GB UHS-3 | SCSI Dir 4 | 4.8 MB/s | 4.4 MB/s | Internal |
| Performa 575 | 7.3.5 | Samsung Pro Endurance 256GB U3 | SCSI Dir 4 | 5.1 MB/s | 3.6MB/s | 5MB Bus, DB25 |
| Quadra 700 | 7.3.5 | SanDisk Extreme 32GB A1 | SCSI Dir 4 | 4.3 MB/s | 4 MB/s | 5MB Bus, DB25 |
| PowerBook 180 | Mac OS 8 (driver only, not OS) | WD Purple 32GB UHS-1 | SCSI Dir 4 | 1.9 MB/s | 1.5 MB/s | Internal Narrow Bus |
| PowerBook 180 | Mac OS 7.5.3 | WD Purple 32GB UHS-1 | SCSI Dir 4 | 0.7 MB/s | 0.8 MB/s | Internal Narrow Bus |
| PowerBook 170 | Mac OS 7.5.3 | Gigastone Gaming plus 32GB A1 | FWB Bench | 1.7 MB/s | 1.4 MB/s | DB25 |
| *1 PowerBook 140/170 | Mac OS 8 (driver only, not OS) | WD Purple 32GB UHS-1 | SCSI Dir 4 | 1.65 MB/s | 1.5 MB/s | Internal Narrow Bus |
| *1 PowerBook 140/170 | Mac OS 7.5.3 | WD Purple 32GB UHS-1 | SCSI Dir 4 | 0.65 MB/s | 0.73 MB/s | Internal Narrow Bus |
| Plus | 7.3.5 | Sandisk Extreme Pro 64 GB UHS-3 | SCSI Dir 4 | 0.45 MB/s | 0.25 MB/s | SCSI Accelerator 7.0 extension |
| SE | 7.3.5 | Sandisk Extreme Pro 64 GB UHS-3 | SCSI Dir 4 | 0.68 MB/s | 0.50 MB/s | External port, desktop version in a case |
| SE/30 | 7.3.5 | Sandisk Extreme Pro 64 GB UHS-3 | SCSI Dir 4 | 1.6 MB/s | 1.4 MB/s | External port, desktop version in a case |
| Classic | Mac OS 7.1.1 | Kioxia 32GB Exceria U1 | SCSI Dir 4 | 0.68 MB/s | 0.59 MB/s | Internal Bus - exFat |
| SGI O2 | IRIX | WD Purple U1 | diskperf | 9.52 MB/s | 6.89 MB/s | External SCSI-2 |
| NeXTstation | NeXT | PNY Elite-X U3 | Drive Performance | 2.29 MB/s | 1.11 MB/s | Internal 50-pin (bus limited to 5MB) |
*1: This PowerBook is badged 140 on the display but SCSI Director reports it as a 170.
Note that seek numbers are meaningless in a SD solution - they wait 10ns (10ms on SCSI-1 bus) then return good as there is no actual head to move.
