In practice, buffering may occur at various other levels, such as on the hard disk itself, the controller, or the kernel disk drive device driver, so ours may not make much of a difference.

实际上，缓冲可能发生在其它不同的级别，例如硬盘本身、控制器或内核磁盘驱动设备驱动程序，所以我们的工作可能对性能影响不大。

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In our scenario, the systems we are using are identical in terms of disk drives, directory structure, database driver location, and so on.

在我们的场景中，所使用的系统在磁盘驱动器、目录结构、数据库驱动程序位置等方面都是完全相同的。

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Thus a call from the audio driver to command the sound card will be accepted and processed but a call from the audio driver to command the disk will be rejected.

因此从声音驱动发出控制声卡的调用会被接受，而从声音驱动发出控制硬盘的调用会被拒绝。

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Although Intel did not detail where the disk drive shortages are originating from, disk driver makers like Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate (STX) have discussed various levels of supply shortages in recent weeks due to flooding in Thailand.

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The warning follows similar disclosures from other companies in related businesses: Disk-driver maker Seagate has warned, as has the chip-maker AMD.

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Thus consumer storage growth will be a driver in cost effective digital storage provided by hard disk drives.

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