The Logic Off Topic list

Speaking of hard drives, what do you think of the new WD2000JB from 
Western Digital? It doesn't use fluid bearings yet but it's still as 
quiet as a DeskStar and the "BB" model (that has a smaller cache) 
will eventually use fluid bearings for improved acoustics though I'm 
not sure if that's really worth reducing the 8 mb buffer. Anyway the 
controversial thing about this new great drive is that while it's an 
awesome performer (56 mbytes/s sustained transfer rate!) its average 
seek time is a little high around 14 ms compared to some of the 
competition, though none of the faster-seek-time drives come close to 
its other synthetic and real world benchmark scores. Think that would 
be ok for audio with regular defragmenting etc? 

Best wishes,
Jeremy Martin; sadus@...                        
http://www.carrollsweb.com/sadus <-- music links, PC DAW parts list