-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > Šarūnas, > >> What was the transfer speed for the latter? Seek times for both? One >> thing is to store data, another --- getting it, or finding it at all, >> in time, that is... > > Well, at first I was simply going to write you about how I was talking > about a 30+ year old disk drive from a computer company that has been > defunct for over ten years, but then I did a google and on the first > try, in less than two seconds, I came up with this: > > http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/rp06.html "Finding" the data!.. :) Thanks for all the other details.
It's about 6 Mb/s or just shy of 1MB/s. The entire data contents of RP06 then could have been fetched in about 200s (let's say 3min), compared to 1TB at 300MB/s and thus approx. 3000s or close to 1h. Šarūnas Burdulis Etna, NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjiOVUACgkQVVkpJ1MUn+YGHgCfZGRj1Chcgk+dIYBUCntRod9M 2YIAn1Jc8FydSUgFHfM7v8ZIKWoE9Zcs =dt9l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/