On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 05:06:30PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> UW SCSI @ 7200 rpm -vs- IDE @ 5400 rpm
> 
> you lose the greatness of SCSI and 1800 rpms so there is a big speed difference

Not really. The 30GB disk should have a much higther density than a 4GB one.
So, although it spins slower the new disk should be much faster for
sequencial reads or writes. seek times should be about the same.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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