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Re: New 270.

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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