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Subject: Re: Fast Hard Disks - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 23:03:26 EST
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fortune!jones    Dec 19 19:14:00 1983

The Maxtor is a nice drive.  Other drives to consider are the Atasi,
Evotek,  and the CDC Wren.

A thing to remember about the Maxtor and the Atasi.  If seek times are
important to you, you should know that both drives wait until receipt
of *all* step pulses  before initiating the seek.  At a 10 us per
step rate on a Maxtor, for instance, that can mean an additional 3 ms
per average seek.  On some controllers, like the Western Digital
with slower step rates, that would mean an additional 10+ ms per seek. 

Dan Jones
Fortune Systems