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  3. June 2002

RE: New 270.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.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
?  Do the data rates of pc drives increase as the density increases ?

( Andy, thanks for sharing your hardware knowledge )

Steve Richter

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