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From: Steve Richter <srichter@autocoder.com> On Behalf Of Andy Nolen-Parkhouse > >As far as technical specifications go, on things like rotation speed, > >data-rate, latency, etc., the 8 GB and 17 GB drives are identical. > > Why would the data rate be the same if the bits are packed twice > as densely ? Every else the same, the data rate should be proportional to the density so that 187 GB drives should have twice the data rate of 8 GB drives. Now, this is for bits INTO the cache, the rate for bits OUT of the cache may well be the same.
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