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To: Gottfried who wrote (7339)2/16/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: John Biddle   of 9124
 
Gottfried,

I understood Lawrence's comment to be a demonstration that multiple heads on an arm wouldn't be faster, because if they were, then an 8 heads on 4 platters drive would also be faster than a 2 heads on 1 platter drive for the same reason (given similar platter densities, track/sector configurations, etc.).

My guess was that this is true because usage patterns minimize the real-world benefit of not having to move the arm to continue reading.

I found his example to be quite insightful.

Now, can you answer my serial vs parallel question in my previous post ?
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