Hard drive performance question

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:03:22PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ok, I guess I thought 14 was high but it's ok then? I'm not sure what is acceptible
> but I guess sometimes I thought it would go down instead of always being constant.
> So I assumed(ignorantly) that there is a disk i/o problem.
> 
> -- 
> Jason

This sould depend largely on the drive you have. Firstly you have two 
different speed at wich the drives can turn. And secundly the larger disk 
pack more Bytes on the same area. So it can write it faster down. At least
this wat i was told.

--
Alex

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