From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262086AbTJSINy (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:13:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262092AbTJSINy (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:13:54 -0400 Received: from users.linvision.com ([62.58.92.114]:54656 "HELO bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262086AbTJSINw (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:13:52 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:13:49 +0200 From: Rogier Wolff To: "Mudama, Eric" Cc: "'Norman Diamond '" , "'Hans Reiser '" , "'Wes Janzen '" , "'Rogier Wolff '" , "'John Bradford '" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org '" , "'nikita@namesys.com '" , "'Pavel Machek '" , "'Justin Cormack '" , "'Russell King '" , "'Vitaly Fertman '" , "'Krzysztof Halasa '" Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results are in Message-ID: <20031019081349.GA21346@bitwizard.nl> References: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB300@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB300@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: BitWizard.nl Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:37:03AM -0600, Mudama, Eric wrote: > About 2.5 years ago, Maxtor's largest drive was 60GB... 15GB/head. Now > we're shipping 250GB drives with 6 heads also... ~42GB/head, almost triple Know your maxtor drives: Maxtor has been shipping 4-platter, 8 head drives for quite a long time. Only recently am I starting to see the largest maxtor-drive from a family having the space to carry 4 platters, but none of the expected capacity are shipping (*).... Care to explain? Eric, do you know why maxtor stopped putting the number of heads in the model number? (It's the last number in the model number, just after the letter. Currently all drives set this to "0"). It was quite convenient for us to know what to expect from a 92720U8, 98196H8, 96147H8 and 4G160J8. (Hmmm apparently, we're mostly buying the "largest of the family" drives: they all have 8 heads! I just looked at the models in some of our computers.) Roger. (e.g. the 250G model seems to be a 6-head disk, and not 8-head). -- ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* **** "Linux is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside!" ****