From: Will Lau (thinkpad_at_snappersolutions.com)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 18:09:01 EDT
Thank You!
That was just the answer I was looking for. It's time for me to get a bigger
drive.
Size does matter :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: I Lee Hetherington [mailto:ilh_at_sls.lcs.mit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 October 2000 1:40 a.m.
> To: Will Lau
> Cc: emanuel_at_brown.org; thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: The speed of the 30 Gig Drives
>
>
> Will Lau wrote:
>
> > If I pack in 30gigs onto a disk instead of 12Gigs, wont the
> 30gig be reading
> > more data per revolution of the disk?
>
> Exactly. If you're talking about streaming speed, then disk
> density plays a
> direct role since more bits go by the head every revolution. The
> only advantage
> of faster RPM is more along the lines of seek speed since it may
> have to wait
> almost an entire revolution (~0.2ms) for desired data to come
> back to the head.
>
> Now that surface density is getting so high, high RPM is less
> important. That's
> good from a noise and temperature standpoint too.
>
> --Lee Hetherington
>
>
>
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