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Xref: sserve comp.arch:28008 comp.unix.bsd:7642 comp.os.linux:15185 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rw9.urc.tue.nl!tgcpwd From: tgcpwd@rw9.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: IDE faster than Mips SCSI disk Message-ID: <6215@tuegate.tue.nl> Date: 9 Nov 92 08:30:26 GMT References: <1992Nov6.033942.21194@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <MAD.92Nov7220823@amber.math.keio.ac.jp> <k2.721260853@woodstock> Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl Reply-To: tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl Followup-To: comp.arch Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 26 Klaus Steinberger writes: > 1520363 bytes/second for writing the file > 1736771 bytes/second for reading the file Others have written results for ordinary 386s with plain IDE disk in the range of 200-500 kB/s. I tried it at my home PC and I got similar results. However, I always thought that those VAX/VMS machines at work were awfully slow. So I tried iozone there too. It compiled without a glitch, and gave results in various machines (workstations up to large VAX-6410s) with various disks (RA type, RF type, other) results in the range 15-40 kB/s. What does this mean: Are the disks really that slow? Is the VMS version of iozone different? Is the OS that significant? Since this threads seems to acknowledge the presence of people knowledgeable on hard disk, I thought I might as well ask this. Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Blue Baron = Wim van Dorst, Voice (+31) 074-443937, (+31) 02152-42319 (-: baron@clifton.hobby.nl tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl WvD@Akzo.400net.nl :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------