Price/Performance of time

[Šarūnas]

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Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> Tonight I bought TWO 1 Terabyte external disk drives, that
> transfer information at a rate of 300 Mbytes per second, for a total
> cost of $283.
> 
> I remember that RP06 disk drives which I purchased for Bell Labs in the
> 1980 to 1983 time frame held about 256 Mbytes and cost $23K
> apiece (and that was when $23K was a lot of money).

What was the transfer speed for the latter? Seek times for both? One
thing is to store data, another --- getting it, or finding it at all, in
time, that is...

Šarūnas Burdulis
Etna, NH
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