[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[John Drescher]

> Horsecrap.  Those are almost certainly 15krpm drives, with reasonably
> sized caches.  And with native TCQ, their throughput is likely quite a bit
> hither than current consumer SATA, too.
>
The latest consumer SATA drives are hitting 150MB/s STR. If you short
stroke these down to the same size of the older SCA-80pin drive (I am
assuming these are 80GB or less) most likely the SATA would win even
in seeks for the short stroked drive. I would not use it that way
though.

John