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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (9649)	5/5/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Read Replies (2) of 10072

What this ORB user is probably seeing is the effects of ORB shipping unformatted media. Now I was accused of ORB bashing for daring to mention the technical details of their technology. The simple fact of the matter is that since ORB media is unformatted if users do not turn on the write verification option (goes back and reads everything they write) then users can and will lose data by unknowingly writing to bad spots on the disk. This is why the defects grow for the end user. It is simply that he is verifying the media integrity with his data. This is not a slam of ORB it simply reflects the method that they have chosen to cut costs. By not formatting the media they save money in production but the user then must be savvy enough to turn on write verify which more than halves the drives throughput. Frank Neither short not long IOM, just a storage geek.

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