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From: stevem@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Steve Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum 105 drives (again)
Message-ID: <19640003@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 22:10:36 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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<Question as to what the seek time for a Quantum 105 is: 12 or 19 ms>

The Quantum 105 as well as the entire Pro-Drive series from Quantum have a
raw seek time averaging 19 ms.  However, they have a built in caching scheme
which lowers the average seek time.  The actual average seek time is being
advertised by Quantum's marketing department as 12 ms, although I talked to
an engineer at Quantum who says that the actual number is not well understood
because it is highly dependent on actual usage.  The size of the cache is
either 16K or 64K, I can't remember which.

Steven Miller
Vancouver Division
Hewlett Packard