Re: x206-x225

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 13:40 +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Your ATA disk is lying about disk caching being turned off. Assuming
> each insert is in a separate transaction, then it's not going to do
> 10,000 / 6 = 1667 transactions/sec - that's faster than it's rotational
> speed.
Could you explain the calculation? Why should the number of transactions
be related to the rotational speed of the disk, without saying anything
about the number of bytes per rotation?

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