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From: paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: 400meg drive in NextStation is fast!
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Date: 28 Feb 91 14:07:47 GMT
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We just got a NextStation with a 400 meg hard drive, and I did 
a quick test of the raw disk speed.  This disk is really hot!

ramirez> temp/ ls -l
total 18616
-rw-r--r--  1 paul     19038208 Feb 27 09:10 piano1.snd
ramirez> temp/ time dd if=piano1.snd of=/dev/null bs=32768
581+0 records in
581+0 records out
0.0u 9.0s 0:17 53% 0+0k 2332+0io 0pf+0w

ramirez> temp/ bc -l
19038208/17
1119894.58823529411764705882

That comes to a transfer rate of over 1.1 meg a second.  This is
*much* faster than the other disks NeXT has been using.
Just thought you'd like to know.

Paul Lansky
Music
Princeton 

paul@princeton.edu