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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives
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On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote:

> Nope...  but, curious.  I have noticed that the new Seagate Hawk 1GB drives
> (31055N) can outperform the Barra 2G's (32550N) at some things, and I
> believe the Hawk's are still 5400 RPM...  we are seeing technology move so
> fast.

I/O advances are slooow compared to CPU advances.