> >>IBM advertises these things as being faster than flash cards...it's got 
> >>a sustained I/O of over 4MB/sec.

> > Yes, but what is the seek time? That may be more relevant.

> average is 12 ms, track to track is 1, full track is 19 ms.

See, I think that's more the issue. While the sustained transfer is excellent,
I strongly doubt that there are large contiguous transfers occurring.

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