On 4 Mar 2014, at 1:15am, romtek <rom...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a question based on my observation. According to your numbers for a
> 5400 RPM disk, one write op should take about 11 ms. However, it often
> takes only about 1 ms on HostGator drives on its shared hosting servers.
> Are there drives that are SO much faster than 5400 RPM ones?

I'll bet that the hosting servers are virtual machines and the drives are 
virtual drives, not physical drives.  Everything is actually done in RAM and 
just flushed to physical disk every so often.

Simon.
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