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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: CDC 9772 disk drives w Emulex sc7003 disk controller on VAX 8600
Message-ID: <9829@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 01:13:13 GMT
References: <182@tijc02.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <182@tijc02.UUCP>, seb022@tijc02.UUCP (Scott Bemis) writes:
>... Carefully controlled benchmarks showed these disk drives to be
>43 percent faster than the RA81 disk drives.

I am a little surprised they are only this much faster.  I would
attribute DEC RA drive slowness to the UDA50 if my measurements on
a KDB50 did not show that it is not much faster.  Part of the
problem is the 6ms head switch delay in the RA81.
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