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Article #20063Re: WD Caviar 2200 slow?
From: Irene Padavic
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:59
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:59
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liuyu@acf5.NYU.EDU (liuyu) writes: > ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes: > > >Yes. Try a recent version of CORE test. It's pretty consistent ALTHOUGH it > >sometimes gets confused by caching and reports very high performance (but > >misleading) figures with some caches enabled. > > I just tried CORE test (v 2.92) I found on wuarchive. It showed 1.89 meg/s. > Amazingly different... Maybe this version is too old. It is dated 1990. > > Anyway, thanks for the detailed reply! Using CORE 2.92 on my 2250 I got 1.64 megs. Gateway had estimated 1.5 when they sold it to me. And, it sure doesn't seem noisy compared to the Microscience it replaced. Randy Earnest c/o ipadavic@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!udel!gatech!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!garnet.acns.fsu.edu!ipadavic From: ipadavic@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Irene Padavic) Subject: Re: WD Caviar 2200 slow? Message-ID: <1993Jan26.025928.25746@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Sender: news@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Usenet News File Owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: garnet.acns.fsu.edu Organization: Florida State University References: <2134@acf5.NYU.EDU> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 02:59:28 GMT Lines: 17