On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:11:56PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
How much of a factor is rotational latency? Or does sucking entire
track
into buffer
make rotational latency a non-factor these days?
It still seems to matter from timing. I would assume the drives are smart
enough to hand back sectors as they read them even if they are caching
ahead and doing other clever stuff.