Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:50:11 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Brett Glass <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, jacs@gnome.co.uk, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Micropolis 1991 AV 9GB Drive Message-ID: <5759.829331411@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:20:02 PST." <9603128293.AA829326577@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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Brett Glass wrote in message ID <9603128293.AA829326577@ccgate.infoworld.com>: > Average access times are supposed to be 11 ms. The fastest commonly > available drives are 8 ms, and the latest PC IDE drives sit at 12 ms or so. > Also, the 9 GB drives have huge amounts of data per cylinder and fast > spindle speeds. Why would they be slow? That's for sequential data accessing ... random data accessing across the entire disk is NASTY, esp. if you use it for a news spool, which generally requires accessing nearly every point on the disk very frequently. Gary
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