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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Wed,  3 Aug 2011 07:55:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] cheep ssds
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On Wednesday 03 of August 2011 05:53:51 erik quanstrom wrote:
> i just got a 40gb intel ssd for building up a new file
> server.  i really wasn't expecting 275 out of a theoretical
> 300mb/s.  maybe i forgot how to count and it's actually
> 27.5.  :-)

ah, marketing. megabits per second, rather than megabytes.

nb., SATAII isn't twenty times faster than PATA, just two times. 3GBit minu=
s=20
8/10 encoding.

=2D-=20
dexen deVries

[[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]]

=46or example, if the first thing in the file is:
   <?kzy irefvba=3D"1.0" rapbqvat=3D"ebg13"?>
an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional=
=20
ROT13 encoding.

(( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))