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A very cool trick ... that provides less deterministic write times....

Furthers the model that "Cache is the new RAM, RAM is the new disk, disk is the new tape", especially big capacity ones like this.

ADDED: to get the most out of these drives, their non-atomic write nature needs to be exposed, here's a USENIX item on all that: http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/solutions-content/i...




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