Price/Performance of time

[Bill McGonigle]

On Sep 30, 2008, at 11:17, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:

> All of that would assume that you were reading sequentially and not
> waiting for disk head movement and rotational delay aggravated by  
> direct
> access techniques.

Yeah, but to be fair that drive you just bought is only giving you  
the cache-to-phy statistic, and not even telling you about the half- 
duplex nature of the bus. Your old disk's manufacturer was probably  
giving you a real statistic, even if ideal.

> The RP06 did not have 16 MBytes of cache memory built into it

Did the computer you were hooking it up to even have 16MB of main  
memory in it?

-Bill
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