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5-10 times?

Posted Apr 6, 2011 9:44 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: Future storage technologies and Linux by butlerm
Parent article: Future storage technologies and Linux

Is this 5-10x the same as the 20% increase in the article? Or are they unrelated?

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5-10 times?

Posted Apr 6, 2011 15:32 UTC (Wed) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]

The first 20% figure in the article refers to the gain from using 4K sectors. The second one I don't know about, but I assume it refers to the gain from using some form of first generation SMR, as opposed to the long term gains possible.

Of course I can't imagine why anyone would actually purchase (or market) an SMR drive with only a 20% capacity increase anytime soon given all the other problems.