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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
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Subject: Re: Imprimis drives   was Re: 386 questions
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Date: 10 Jul 90 02:17:50 GMT
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news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes:
>i have an Imprimis St-1100 (i think); it is an IDE 128MB
>
>before i got it , i saw it perform 15.5 millisecond seeks. (average)
>on my machine, i doesn't do better than 16.4; 
>
>what factors cause the variation? it was in an SX at the store, my machine
>is a 386-25.

The seek shouldn't vary.  But there are disk caching programs that can make
the drive appear that it has a faster seek than it really does.  It wouldn't
surprise me if they cached it in the store on the sales floor demo unit.
16.4 ms isn't really that bad of a seek time, in fact, it's quite good.
 
     // JCA

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