I really think Rik has it right here.  In particular, an MP3 player needs to be able 
to say, I have
X milliseconds of buffer so make my worst case latency X milliseconds.  The number of 
requests is
the wrong metric, because the time required per request depends on disk geometry, disk 
caching, etc.

Hans
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