From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 24 16:10:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22827 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (root@[209.54.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22531; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral-gw (mjacob@gw100.feral.com [192.67.166.129]) by feral.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id QAA26472; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:08:47 -0700 Message-ID: <35411B7F.445BCF20@feral.com> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 16:08:47 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob Organization: Feral Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Satoshi Asami CC: remy@synx.com, dwilde1@ibm.net, don@partsnow.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb References: <199804242305.QAA17891@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Satoshi Asami wrote: > > * From: Remy NONNENMACHER > > * "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...). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message