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Loose Nut wrote in message <369e3333.16803361@news.discover-net.net>...
>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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