hard drive DTR numbers?

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From: Keith Ford
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:02

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Here is a snippet of email from a friend.  We are looking to buy
some hard drives and noticed quite a difference in the DTR (data
transfer rate) values.  How noticeable is this difference?

> specs of the Western Digital Caviar 2200A hard drive and it is 12ms
> access time but has 1.9 MB/sec Data Transfer Rate.   The Segate ST3283
> 245M hard drive has 12ms access time but has 24 MB/sec DTR (probably
> explains the extra $100).  I was looking at several other hard drives
> and most of them are between 1-8 MB/sec DTR.  Do you know anything
> about the DTR and it's importance?
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From: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford)
Subject: hard drive DTR numbers?
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:02:11 GMT
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