Nagered hard drive;'(..
dennis@home wrote:
Most drives rotated quite slowly and it took a lot longer to read the
data from a single drive than an array, the latency was the same.
I'd argue that drives rotate more slowly now.
No, really. They've gone from 3600 to 10000 RPM - but the capacity has
grown several orders of magnitude, so the speed is much lower in proportion.
Andy
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