I suspect this new drive claiming 140MB/sec sustained rates is running 2 heads in "parallel" since this number is about double what you see in "normal" drives. They could have sped up the rotational speed and/or upped the bit density to get this performance as well.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup) On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) <tom.alver...@ngc.com> wrote: > I'm wondering why they have not done this yet as well. > Using more that 2 heads in parallel would at some > point be enough to saturate existing SATA interfaces. Unless they *are* already doing it, and the current speeds of hard drives reflect that. Do you have any reason to believe they are not already doing so? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
