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On 14 Jan 1999 05:25:57 GMT, jstok@SPAMBLOCKED.apana.org.au (Jason
Stokes) wrote:

>In article <369f7848.25106337@news.discover-net.net>, Loose Nut
><Imnot@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>>All of it sounds pretty good except:
>>>6.4G EIDE UDMA 33.5 m/s Hard Drive
>
>>Is this a typo? Most Hard Drives have an average seek speed around
>>12ms, some are as bad as 17ms and some are better at 7ms, but 33.5 ms?
>>Am I missing something here?
>
>Yes, he means "Megabytes per Second."  Rare that a vendor will even
>bother to mention the seek time of a hard drive, or its MTBF.  You pays
>your money, and you takes your chances.

Oh, ok, I'm used to M/s for Meg per sec, and ms for millisecond. The
(m)/s threw me. If you look into some hardware catalogues, (generally
mail order), you WILL see the seek speeds listed, but you don't see
them too often in retail outlets. Thanx

Loose Nut
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