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Article #319Re: Fastest portion of a HD....
From: Tony Primavera
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00
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The outer edge of the Disk is where performance is best because the head does not move for a longer period of time. In other words it does not need to jump to a different track as soon to finish your request. Also, most drives like Seagate use cache to help your performance so after the first read of a well used track your likely to get a cache hit. One other neat thing Seagate does is read on arrival. The head seeks to the track your requested data lives on and begins reading, even if its not the data you want. It caches the whole track because it is likely you will be comming after the rest of it. Only your requested data is returned of course. -- Tony Primavera (ECCS Inc. Senior Consultant) PHONE: (334) 361-7806 FAX:(334) 361-4059 EMAIL: primo@eccs.com URL: http://www.eccs.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ns.wsnet.com!news From: Tony Primavera <primo@eccs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Fastest portion of a HD.... Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:00:02 -0600 Organization: WSNetwork Communications Services, Inc., Montgomery, AL USA Message-ID: <31227782.DB@eccs.com> References: <4fk04r$o7l@steel.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: primo.wsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; SunOS 5.3 sun4c) To: Laurent-David Hasson <ldh@interlog.com>