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Re: Large disks

Subject: Re: Large disks
From: Wes Bauske (wsb@paralleldata.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 17:25:03 2000


Maurice Hilarius wrote:
>
> With regards to your message at 01:24 PM 1/13/00 -0600, Wes Bauske. Where
> you stated:
>
> >I see 23MB/sec on mine. Maybe you're not running LVD??
> >My LVD terminator has a light on it the tells me exactly
> >what mode my SCSI chain is running.
> i suspect some buffering is helping. The actual data rate head to media on
> a typical 7200 disk is about 16MB/sec..
>

Seagate says we're both right. The formatted I/O
speed for a 50GB drive is 15-26MB/sec depending
I suppose whether you're on the inside or outside
tracks.

Wes

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