[Pc_Support] RE: Fastest Hard Drive Access for Large (Video) Files

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:23 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2454

Note the "multimedia" creation, which is basically a sequential write
operation.  That's where the lower density of the Raptor is not as good.
You want to go with high density commodity disk.

But I agree, for most operations with lots of simultaneous tasks and
response time, Raptor is best.

> http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2450

Actually, that article does a good job of saying what I've always said.
Drives cannot even break 150MBps right now.  Plus the fact that the
300MBps channel is now a gimmick.


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