🚀 go-pugleaf

I've been following this thread for some time. There's been some
interesting claims. I have the supermicro P6dls board with UW SCSI and of
course UDMA IDE support. I need both for my use.
Anyhow, I just thought I'd put my 2cents worth in by suggesting people
might want to take a look at this site. There's some interesting
benchmarks.

http://www.cstone.net/~mbreeden/mac/

In article <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-dwio8ZtCixdO@ALEX>, krw@ibm.net wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 19:00:53, bob@lintilla.demon.co.uk (Bob 
> Cousins) wrote:
> 
> > In demon.tech.pc, Ron Reaugh wrote:
> > 
> > >Workstation performance is dominated by sustained transfer rate and not
> > >access time.
> > 
> > I think that's completely untrue. Only in very few situations do you get
> > conditions where sustained transfer rate would be dominant. i..e where
you are
> > doing sequential accesses with large transfer sizes. Typical
workstation access
> > is random access with relatively small transfers. It only takes a few
seeks to
> > some other part of the disk to screw sustained rate.
> 
> I tend to agree.  Intel asserts that this randomness is far worse
> than the disk makers claim and therefor very much over rate their
> drives.  In fact they state that the specs on drives are next to 
> meaningless (or worse).  
> 
> ----
> 
>   Keith R. Williams
>   krw@ibm.net