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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ox-prg!mbeattie
- From: mbeattie@oxford.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Seagate ST3283A, 245MB, 12ms access
- Keywords: Seagate, hard drive
- Message-ID: <4301@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 11:42:56 GMT
- Sender: news@comlab.ox.ac.uk
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- Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
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- I've seen adverts in recent magazines for the 'new'
- Seagate ST3283A, supposedly a 245MB hard disk with something
- like 12ms access time. However, some adverts have a different
- id number for what looks like the same disk. Moreover, one has
- it as having 11ms access and one has it with 16ms access (slower
- than the ST1239A,211MB,15ms that it's presumably replacing.)
- Can anyone supply the correct information?
-
- I see also that it's a 1 inch high thing (ST3...) rather than
- a 'half-height' thing (ST1...). Is this A Bad Thing or does it
- just mean that it will take up a whole drive slot instead of half?
-
- While I'm asking questions, is there any other figure to look
- out for when choosing a hard disk (such as transfer rate) or
- is that fairly constant *once size and type (IDE) are fixed*?
- I am *not* interested in caching hardware since the PC will
- run Linux (plug, plug...) which blows away most (if not all)
- of caching hadrware advantages.
-
- --Malcolm
-