Re: 4GB Drives: Who's better Seagate or Quantum

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From: Lawrence Kirby
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:09

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In article <47dlo5$6f@kelewan.dandelion.com>
           lnz@dandelion.com "Leonard N. Zubkoff" writes:

>The published specifications for most drives show a higher power
>consumption while seeking than while just spinning or doing read/write
>operations.  Higher power means the drive has to dissipate the energy as
>heat.  Still, 7200rpm drives generally have higher power consumption than
>5400rpm drives, largely due to energy dissipation through friction, I
>expect.

That is certainly an issue in a fileserver but the proportion of time in
an ordinary user PC that a drive spends seeking is minimal.

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From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 4GB Drives: Who's better Seagate or Quantum
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