>It was probably a good value to use aeons ago when it took a real SLED 3390 
>16.67 ms. to spin around once, so 8.3 ms. was 1/2 revolution.  >Today, 
>however, is aeons later as far as the hardware is concerned, especially 
>channel speed when delivering data from controller cache instead of straight 
>from the platter.

Talk to IBM!
I didn't make up the number.
It's just what it is.

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Too busy driving to stop for gas!

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