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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: Fast hard drives - seek isn't everything.
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:09:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.092641.24824@doug.cae.wisc.edu> keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore) writes:
- >
- >I asked Hard Drives Intl for their fastest IDE drive (thinking I would
- >let Zeos keep the Seagate 3283A 245MB drive that came with my system
- >and upgrade immediately). HDI sent me a $1000 FJ2624A 510MB
- >Fujitsu IDE drive. It turned out to be slower than the Seagate on
- >all the benchmarks and programs I tested even though it had about
- >an 8 ms seek time to the Seagate's 11 ms. The following explains
- >how this was determined and why the Seagate was faster on both
- >the benchmarks and on real programs.
-
- There's just a *little* something wrong here...
- You gave up on a 510Mb drive because a 245Mb drive was faster?
- Um, that tells me that you didn't even need the extra capacity of the
- 510 Mb drive in the first place. Or, I suppose that if you are serious,
- you are going to get a second Seagate (245 Mb) so you will have the 500Mb
- capacity of the Fujitsu.
-
- Hey, I hear that the 1.2 and 1.5 GIG drives are pretty fast! Why don't
- you get one of those instead!?
-