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Article #98Re: 4GB Drives: Who's better Seagate or Quantum
From: Craig A. Lemon [Admin]
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 01:26
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 01:26
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Kevin Martinez (lps@rahul.net) wrote: : proverbs@wolfenet.com (Chris Pirih) writes: : : >Do you have any evidence that seeking generates more heat than spinning? : >Your reasoning seems sound, but my informal "finger testing" contradicts : >it. : : Try touching (use the topside of your fingers if you're brave!) the VCM : drivers on any high performance disk drive before and after running a : test that causes extensive seeking for some empirical evidence. Fine, but do you think that those driver IC's generate appreciable heat *COMPARED* to the air and bearing friction of the platters? I still don't think so. -- Craig A. Lemon VE3XCL (Advanced) | http://sunee.uwaterloo.ca/~calemon 3B UWaterloo Electrical Engineering | calemon@uplink.on.ca (home) President, UW Amateur Radio Club | calemon@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (school) Chair, UW IEEE Computer Section | AX.25: ve3xcl@ve3uow.#swon.on.can.na
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!uplink.on.ca!not-for-mail From: calemon@uplink.on.ca (Craig A. Lemon [Admin]) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: 4GB Drives: Who's better Seagate or Quantum Followup-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi Date: 5 Nov 1995 20:26:31 -0500 Organization: Uplink Communications Distribution: world Message-ID: <47jo87$scp@uplink.on.ca> References: <46hcd8$t18@elaine16.Stanford.EDU> <46hj2p$r6t@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> <46jkou$6an@panix.com> <46s0so$1uh@rn.com> <phrDH6ouJ.4Dz@netcom.com> <470pc4$b8k@panix.com> <omlet.309a043fwn@news1.wolfe.net> <47ebgn$5nr@bug.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uplink.on.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]