Last updated on 25 May 2004

Workbench

I have no clue yet how I will be organizing this thing. I just need a place to put this stuff so long so that it doesn't get lost 


80Mhz 486-DX2, 800MB Conner IDE disk
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in 14.82 seconds = 8.64 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 51.44 seconds = 1.24 MB/sec

133MHz Pentium, 6GB Quantum Bigfoot IDE disk
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  7.65 seconds = 16.73 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 34.09 seconds =  1.88 MB/sec

200MHz Pentium, 10GB Quantum Bigfoot IDE disk
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  2.91 seconds = 43.99 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 30.24 seconds =  2.12 MB/sec

550MHz Pentium III, Adaptec DPT SCSI RAID, 2 x 9GB IBM SCSI disks
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.94 seconds =136.17 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.93 seconds = 16.28 MB/sec

400MHz Pentium II, 20GB Maxtor IDE disk
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.04 seconds =123.08 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.48 seconds = 25.81 MB/sec

800MHz Pentium III, 17GB Fujitsu IDE disk
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.01 seconds =126.73 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.92 seconds = 21.92 MB/sec

2.4GHz Pentium 4, 40GB Seagate IDE
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.30 seconds =426.67 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.58 seconds = 40.51 MB/sec

2.4GHz Pentium 4, FASTTRAK IDE RAID, 2 x 40GB Maxtor IDE
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.32 seconds =400.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.16 seconds = 55.17 MB/sec

2.8GHz Pentium 4 (1MB cpu cache), LSI MegaRAID U320-2X, 2 x 73GB Seagate SCSI
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.20 seconds =640.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  0.98 seconds = 65.31 MB/sec

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