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From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Speed variation depending on disk position
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 07:39:28 +1200
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Peter Rabbitson wrote:

> design of modern drives? I have an array of 4 Maxtor sata drives, and
> raw read performance at the end of the disk is 38mb/s compared to 62mb/s
> at the beginning.

At least one supplier of terabyte arrays mitigates this effect and 
improves seek times, by using 750GB drives and only utilising the first 
500GB.

Regards,

Richard