Date: Sat, 13 Apr 96 15:25:41 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: <9603138294.AA829427555@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> "Average access times" are a bit of a furphy. Look at the 'full stroke' > timings for starters. "Full stroke" timings don't take cylinder capacity into account, and are therefore not as good a metric. > J. Random Tower's PSU will have most of it's balls behind the 5V rail. Ratings are readily available, and show that most supplies are capable of supplying the SPIN-UP current of the latest disks (far more than is needed during actual use) continuously. Older disks might be a problem, but we're talking about today's technology. > It sounds like you're looking at them in the context of Multimedia > applications, and under those circumstances these issues aren't so > significant. For all the bulk data throughput, MM apps don't actually > work the disk very hard. Just try playing back several movies at the same time and listen to the thrashing! --Brett
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