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Authored by: jcteo on Feb 07, '04 12:56:15PM

A couple of points:

- He replaced the INTERNAL drive with a 7200 rpm. I don't think Firewire is involved.

- FW400 can more than handle the sustain rate from a 4200 rpm, so it is NOT the limiting factor

- In many operations (including "find /" that the original poster mentioned), much of the time spent is in seeking, not transfering. The decreased latency of a 7200 rpm drive would speed things up even if bandwidth is limited by the bus.


-j



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