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Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> That means that they are likely comparing fairly new, large ATA 7200RPM 
> drives to *significantly* older 7200RPM SCSI drives.  That's a bit unfair.

They aren't. Read the papers. :)

> Actually, I found the Google paper a prime example of academics creating 
> a not terribly useful paper because it lacks details.  They hide the raw 
> data, it is difficult to reproduce, and it lacks predictive power.

Most of their data agreed with the other papers which are independent of
google. I find that pretty interesting.

> We would be better off if they published the raw data without comment.

Would you really have sifted through all of that data and done a similar
analysis for yourself? I know I wouldn't. And would you have kept the
results to yourself and given us the raw data without comment as well? I
mean, someone has to comment right?

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