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Subject: Re: Impact of disk performance in endgames

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 18:28:54 07/15/02

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On July 15, 2002 at 15:27:41, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>Bandwidth isn't really the issue here. Latency is.
>
>The problem is that you are pulling tiny little bits of information from all
>over the disk.  The SCSI drive spins faster, so it has a lower seek time.
>
>anthony

WD 40GB IDE:  8.9ms average seek time

Fuji 36.7GB SCSI:  5.4ms average seek time


That's pretty huge.



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