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To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (7336)2/16/1998 1:23:00 PM
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Good point. Is that because on a percentage basis, most use of the drive isn't able to benefit from the head not having to move?

Is it also true that each head is read from in series, rather than in parallel? It seems that if they were read from in parallel the more heads the better.
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