check out:
http://www.seagate.com/corp/vpr/quinta/quintop.shtml
if you actaully want to see a fixed disk technlogoy that will affect you
in 2-5 years.
joelja
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, BlueFlux wrote:
>
>
> This is realy not my area but i got an mail about this some days ago on
> another mailing list. What it said was the an company called american
> technologies are about to develop an new HD deriving from alien
> technology(yes of course this sounds like total bullshit, but that
> probably isnt more than some promotional thing to make themselfs heard
> of). Anyways, these new HD's would have something like an average seek
> time of 0.000? ms and an capacity of some 60 megs/second. This isnt all
> but they also said their first production lines would be able to handle
> about 90 gigs of space..it would also have NO moving parts which would
> have any degree of wearage(sp?)!
>
> Ok so what is my point then? With there would be no meaning of making any
> compression on the swap files as there would be enough speed in these new
> harddrives to kick ass without any compression.
>
> (disclamer: sorry for being an bit unclear but im pretty tired right now
> and i might have gotten some things wrong.)
>
> If someone would want more info i might dig the original message out from
> the others and send his way or perhaps even to the list.
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Marty Leisner wrote:
> > >
> > > > Any hard numbers on cpu time versus disk wait? Also how much
> > > > compression will be achieved...
> > >
> > > Disk transfer time is absolutely minimal, especially when
> > > compared to disk seek time...
> > > And disk seek time isn't at all affected by swap compression.
> > > If you want swap performance, clustering and read-ahead are
> > > the way to go.
> >
> > it is affecting seek times .. a 2-times compression thing means the size
> > of the swap area is halved as well, thus average seeks are halved as well.
> > (if you use a separate swap device and swap fragmentation isnt too high,
> > ie. the swap set is a ~1.0 dimensional fractal ;)
> >
> > -- mingo
> >
> >
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