Answer these questions to get recommended average seek time, rotation speed, and transfer rate in the Recommended specifications group. The recommeded specifications are used to calculate settings for overhead and transfer.
Specify the size of the physical drive, not a logical partition of the drive.
The recommended specifications are based on the fact that hard drives of similar sizes have similar specifications.
Select 1995 or newer if the drive was new in or after 1995. If you are not sure, guess based on the age of the computer.
Selecting 1995 or newer recommends faster specifications.
The recommendation is based on the fact that newer drives of a given size tend to have faster specifications.
Select High performance server if the drive is in a computer designed to act as a data server.
Selecting High performance server recommends faster specifications.
The recommendation is based on the fact that servers tend to have drives with faster specifications.
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