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Article #13Re: New disk quotas in revised FAQ (was: Re: Quotas - Hello?)
From: Henry Kwan
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <5arsso$gql@flea.best.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote: [snip, snip...] > Newer drives are faster for *LINEAR* accesses (3 MBytes/sec four years > ago, 6 MBytes/sec two years ago, 9-15 MBytes/sec today), but the moment > you start seeking the performance tends to drop to the same as last > year's model. [snip, snip...] True. Seek times for drives have not improved significantly in the last couple of years. There have been some improvements, however, in areas other than raw transfer off the disk. The firmware overhead has been cut quite a bit and results in higher I/O's per second numbers. And with the new 10K drives, latency has been trimmed a wee bit. Overall, I would still much rather use a modern 4GB drive than any of the older generation 4GB drives. (Of course, you could always short-stroke a 9GB and get amazing 4GB performance! :-) -- Henry Kwan | StreamLogic Corp. | Voice: 415-325-4392 Engineering | 1555 Adams Drive | FaxBack: 415-833-4683 logic@best.com | Menlo Park, CA 94025 | Web: www.sledgehammer.com Web: www.best.com/~logic | "Home of the Hammer" | <Send Email for PGP Key>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9f6d,3ad554463834640a X-Google-Attributes: gidf9f6d,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,3ad554463834640a X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public From: logic@best.com (Henry Kwan) Subject: Re: New disk quotas in revised FAQ (was: Re: Quotas - Hello?) Date: 1997/01/06 Message-ID: <5asita$298@shellx.best.com> X-Deja-AN: 208204165 references: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970102084626.22658D-100000@shellx.best.com> <5apvkt$k40@samba.rahul.net> <5aq8d3$23o@shellx.best.com> <5arsso$gql@flea.best.net> organization: BEST Internet Communications newsgroups: best.general,ba.internet