On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:21 PM, James Mansion <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: >> >> Average seek time: 4ms >> Seeks/second: 250 >> Data read/seek: 1MB (read-ahead number goes here) >> Total read bandwidth: 250MB/s >> > Most spinning disks now are nearer to 100MB/s streaming. You've talked > yourself into twice that, random access! The fastest cheetahs on this page hit 171MB/second: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/cheetah/ Are there any drives that have a faster sequential transfer rate out there? Checked out hitachi's global storage site and they're fastest drive seems just a tad slower.
