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Article #33836

DiskTimer II vs. SCSI Evaluator

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From: Peter Colby
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 14:38
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In article <16@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (lad) writes:
>If you're looking to compare the performance of SCSI disks Disktimer is NOT
>the way to do it. Disktimer ... it favors disks with a 1:1 interleave and it's
>results do not reflect real-world disk performance.
>
>If you want to fairly evaluate SCSI disk performance use SCSI Evaluator.  It
>doesn't play favorites and you can trust the data it comes up with, to a point.
>
>        Lawrence A. Deleski

Even with its problems, Disktimer II has two major advantages:
	1) Its free
	2) There are published results for a large variety of Hard Disks

If SCSI Evaluator is so wonderfull how do we get hold of it????

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From: pcolby@robbie.prime.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: DiskTimer II vs. SCSI Evaluator
Summary: The Benchmark Wars!!!
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Date: 27 Oct 88 14:38:41 GMT
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