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  3. June 2002

RE: New 270.

As far as technical specifications go, on things like rotation speed,
data-rate, latency, etc., the 8 GB and 17 GB drives are identical.  The
8 GB drives however, have twice the amount of read-ahead cache (4 MB vs.
2 MB according to the V5R1 System Manual).  This might account for the
difference in your performance.  It's the only published difference I
can locate between the drives, aside from the obvious data density.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> Subject: Re: New 270.
>
> Last year, I made the move from 6- 8 GB drives to 6-17 GB, and
performance
> suffered considerably.
>
> Al

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