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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:08:47 -0700
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        remy@synx.com, dwilde1@ibm.net, don@partsnow.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb
Message-ID:  <35411B7F.445BCF20@feral.com>
References:  <199804242305.QAA17891@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>

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Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
>  * From: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com>
> 
>  *      "Cache volume: NetWare volume spanning six drives,
>  *      each with a single 204MB partition"
>  *
>  * This means they used stripping and only the beginning of disks (where
>  * the media rate is the highest). Hard to beat without a well tuned ccd
> 
> Also don't forget that the seek times go way down if you're only
> seeking between a few tracks instead of the whole disk. :)
> 
> 


Actually- not necessarily- I've heard that with some of the
newer very high density disks that settle time has gone back
up to ~2ms or so (while seek time gets < 8ms...).

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