> > 
> > I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a 
> moot point 
> > as such a high percentage of hits come from cache.
> 
> remember that most disks have 2MB of disk cache.. new drives 
> are 8MB cache
> 

<snip>
> 
> - the 2MB disk cache will be flooded and not used at all...
> 
> 

True, but this does only depend on how much data is being read.


<snip>
> 
> -- yeah... i've been looking to see how to make disks faster
>    and get the 100MB/sec disk transfers ... or even faster
> 

Surely the way forward for throughput is load balanced, mirrored, raid
arrays with fast drives and large caches on duplexed raid controllers.



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