> On Mar 11, 2015, at 8:26 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The math all looks good. Unfortunately, Robin's test is not indicative of the 
> correct use case. I suspect most people would be OK with the idea that you 
> can only handle about 50 tracks on an external USB2 drive. The harder results 
> to explain come from internal drives. I will definitely get my own mac mini 
> with a spinner inside running tomorrow and re-run the test there with your 
> additional line, and then redo the math you just did above.

Interested to hear the results, more data points.

> We know by existence proof (aka Logic) that the system can handle 128 or more 
> tracks. 

Yep, the tests you posted confirm it’s possible. Just double your buffer size 
from 65536 to 131072. Half the number of seeks, and track count goes from 49 to 
100.


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