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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:33:21AM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> This comment is interesting:
> 
> "Seagate uses horizontal mapping with this drive, so that it reaches
> maximum performance at the beginning of the medium, decreasing at the
> end of the medium."
> 
> So obviously this varies from drive to drive.

You can use zcav from the bonnie++ package
(http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++) to find the transfer-rates for your
drive. I believe finding seek times is a little more tricky since it
depends on where you're seeking from and that will depend on your
application.



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Ragnar Kjorstad
Big Storage