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Re: bored and setting up a 3/4tb array at the office.



On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Miernik wrote:

> > mike             1G 18574  64 20326   6  9319   2 28163  89 94607   8 381.1   0
>
> Is ............................................................... this ^^^^^^^^
> the reciprocal (1/x) of random access time?
>
> If yes, is it really possible to get 2.6 ms random access time on
> mechanical hard disks? I've never seen a drive which gives a value
> less then 8 ms in the specifications.

Well, some of the Seagate Cheetah's are 3.6ms.  Then again, they're
15krpm, and not the four 5400 rpm drives that the above raid array is
composed of.



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