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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:31:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Nicholas J. Leon" <nicholas@binary9.net>
To:	"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: disk head scheduling

 # I read before arguing I was talking about the 'new' solid state disks
 # that are not electomechanical at all.

Indeed. I just spec'd out a 60G raid5 subsystem that uses nothing but
solid state drives and a fiberchannel backplane. ***VERY*** fast... and
very expensive, >$50K.

 # Dick Johnson


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