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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Fastest Disk for IIci
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Date: 15 Nov 89 20:44:00 GMT
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In article <1989Nov13.224738.22909@paris.ics.uci.edu> truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes:
>MicroNet Technology offers that setup. They also have a very clean way
>of packing 5.25" drives into the IIcx and ci boxes. Talk to Charles
>McConnathy (president of MicroNet) about REAL drive performance some
>time. His premise is that access time is just a small part of the real
>world performance.  5.25" drives simple do less seeking than 3.5"
>drives and at any given time, have more data "under the heads" ready to
>read. This has the effect of dramatically increasing throughput during
>normal useage (not just tests).

Yeah, talk to Charles sometime.  He has some really weird ideas of
what constitutes drive performance.  True enough that access time
isn't everything (sustained transfer rates being at least as important),
but Charles couldn't quite grasp why Quantum's 64K cache could possible
speed up access times.  (This was from a CI$ discussion.)


Ken





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