[zfs-discuss] "high speed" at 7,200 rpm

2009-09-01 Thread Richard Elling
FYI, Western Digital shipping high-speed 2TB hard drive http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10322886-1.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 I'm not sure how many people think 7,200 rpm is "high speed" but, hey, it is better than 5,900 rpm :-) -- richard __

Re: [zfs-discuss] "high speed" at 7,200 rpm

2009-09-02 Thread Casper . Dik
>FYI, >Western Digital shipping high-speed 2TB hard drive >http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10322886-1.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 > >I'm not sure how many people think 7,200 rpm is "high speed" >but, hey, it is better than 5,900 rpm :-) Most of the "Intellispeed" drives are just 5400rpm;

Re: [zfs-discuss] "high speed" at 7,200 rpm

2009-09-02 Thread Eric Sproul
casper@sun.com wrote: > Most of the "Intellispeed" drives are just 5400rpm; I suppose that this > drive can deliver 150MB/s on sequential access. I have the earlier generation of the 2TB WD RE4 drive in one of my systems. With Bonwick's diskqual script I saw an average of 119 MB/s across 14 d