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- From: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford)
- Subject: hard drive DTR numbers?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.170211.9579@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:02:11 GMT
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- Here is a snippet of email from a friend. We are looking to buy
- some hard drives and noticed quite a difference in the DTR (data
- transfer rate) values. How noticeable is this difference?
-
- > specs of the Western Digital Caviar 2200A hard drive and it is 12ms
- > access time but has 1.9 MB/sec Data Transfer Rate. The Segate ST3283
- > 245M hard drive has 12ms access time but has 24 MB/sec DTR (probably
- > explains the extra $100). I was looking at several other hard drives
- > and most of them are between 1-8 MB/sec DTR. Do you know anything
- > about the DTR and it's importance?
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