[Discussion] Selecting a hard drive

[bokeny at earthlink.net]

In <courier.4666C1B7.00007C04 at mail.abiliba.net>, on 06/06/2007 
   at 08:17 AM, "Douglas Clark" <clark454 at comcast.net> said:

>Remember there are two aspects for drive interface speed:

>1) how fast the drive can transfer the data on and off the platter,
>This is measured  in sustained transfer rate. Seek time is how fast the
>drive can find the data on the  platter(s).

>2) how fast the drive can transfer the data from the drive to the
>computer, i.e.  transfer on the bus.

>Unless the data is in the drive's cache, I believe the more important
>speed rating is  the sustained transfer rate off of the platter. As
>long as the bus (ATA, SATA,  SCSI, PCI) is faster than the sustained
>transfer rate, you are fine. And PCI should  be faster than the
>sustained transfer rate.

Thank you for the very informative mail.  I am sure I will be referring
back to it.

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Zoltan Bokeny 
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Fayetteville, North Carolina

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