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In article <46oj7p$bs1@news.cloud9.net> tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

  Have you actually benchmarked this extensively, or are you just saying 
  that they're faster because you think so?

  I don't believe the Grand Prix has been discontinued.

  I have 50 Conner 4207s here, all in the same room, all essentially brand 
  new, all with the _exact same_ stiction problem, which is infuriating.

  They do perform quite nicely on reads, around 6.8MB/sec.  If all you ever 
  use your disk for is reads, I suppose that's great.  But they only write 
  at about 3.6MB/sec (all on long sustained writes), so they essentially lose,
  in most real-world applications.

Well, I can't speak to stiction problems, but in my testing of sustained
writes to a Conner 4207 I achieved a sustained 6384024 bytes/second to the
/dev/sdb device under Linux.  What was your test environment?

		Leonard