Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:36:11 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jacs@gnome.co.uk, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Micropolis 1991 AV 9GB Drive Message-ID: <9603158296.AA829602096@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> Just because you're traversing "more data" doesn't make said traversal > any _faster_. >From a throughput standpoint, it absolutely DOES make the traversal "faster," as measured in megabytes traversed per millisecond. This is a very important metric. > I'm suggesting that the disks you were talking about, ie. the 1991 > and the Seagate equivalent, have harsh spinup current requirements But only for spinup. And once the disk is running, current requirements drop dramatically. > ... sit next to one during an expire run on a large news spool. Remember > to bring a coffee or three. 8) Sounds as if storage is poorly arranged and/or fragmented. --Brett
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