On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> SATA and SAS disks usually base on the same drive mechanism. The seek times
> are most likely identical.

This must be some sort of "urban legend".  While the media composition 
and drive chassis is similar, the rest of the product clearly differs. 
The seek times for typical SAS drives are clearly much better, and the 
typical drive rotates much faster.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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