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I don’t think that’s true. I recall ~5ms seek times being top of the line.



he said 'subsystem' not 'disk'-

what was the latency to the controller with ram cache?

using seek time as a measure is also somewhat worst case - controllers/filesystems also queue(d) according to drive geometry.




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