On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:21 PM, James Mansion
<james@mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
>>
>> Average seek time: 4ms
>> Seeks/second: 250
>> Data read/seek: 1MB (read-ahead number goes here)
>> Total read bandwidth: 250MB/s
>>
> Most spinning disks now are nearer to 100MB/s streaming. You've talked
> yourself into twice that, random access!
The fastest cheetahs on this page hit 171MB/second:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/cheetah/
Are there any drives that have a faster sequential transfer rate out there?
Checked out hitachi's global storage site and they're fastest drive
seems just a tad slower.