From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 12 10:57:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21754 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21747 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id SAA05761 ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:50:12 +0100 (BST) To: Brett Glass cc: Michael Smith , jacs@gnome.co.uk, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Micropolis 1991 AV 9GB Drive In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:20:02 PST." <9603128293.AA829326577@ccgate.infoworld.com> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:50:11 +0100 Message-ID: <5759.829331411@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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