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From: rong@cwsys2..CWRU.Edu (Rong Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Identifying ST251-1
Keywords: ST251-1 vs standard ST251
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Date: 17 Mar 89 05:45:48 GMT
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In article <12093@ihlpa.ATT.COM> singlar@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Singlar) writes:
>...factory labelled as an ST251.  Since I paid extra to get the
>28 ms ST251-1, I want to be sure SAI did not make a mistake 
>by installing the 40 ms ST251.  I thus have two questions:
>
>	1) Does Seagate omit the suffix digit when labelling
>	   their drives?
>	
>	2) Are there any good benchmark utilities I can run
>	   to assess the average access time?

ST251-1 has 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-1
ST251 has also 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-0
so if you get "MLC-1", you get what you paid for.

It's said that -1 & -0 are identical except when Seagate test the avg access
time, those with speed faster than 28ms get -1, those slower than 28ms, but 
faster than 40ms get -0, i.e. ST251 w/o "-1".

PC Magazine Bench Mark Test includes avg access test(avail thru PCNet, I
guess).

rong chen