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From: jparnas@larouch.watson.ibm.com (Jacob Parnas)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Interesting new SCSI drive...
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.043025.5918@larouch.uucp>
Date: 5 Jul 90 04:30:25 GMT
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Reply-To: jparnas@larouch.watson.ibm.com (Jacob Parnas)
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Recently, I got a Seagate SCSI Elite drive and have been very impressed with
it.  It spins at 5400 RPM and I saw sustained transfers of 2.8 MB/sec
on my RS/6000 Model 530.  Seek time is 12 ms.  It holds 1.5 GB before
formatting.  I also tested it on an RTPC running the good operating
system (4.3 BSD).  It did quite well there, but maxed out at about 1.7
MB/Second due to the AT bus, I guess.

The only problems are that it is slightly bigger than the standard
5 1/4 inch form factor and it requires extra power and cooling.

FYI.

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