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Article #6013Re: Comparing performance of Quantum and Imprimis hard disks
From: Tim W Smith
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1989 03:04
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1989 03:04
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Imprimis would disable the Quantum cache for the obvious reason: disabling the cache causes worse performance. If they also disable the cache on the Wren, then the comparison of the two drives is interesting. For a real comparision, one would have to also test with both caches enabled, since that is the normal situation, but then one gets into nasty issues of trying to simulate real usage, and it gets to be a big mess. If they leave their own cache enabled while disabling the Quantum cache, then their data is garbage. Does the Wren have a cache, by the way? The marketing stuff I've got on the Wren doesn't mention a cache, but in the produce specification, I see that they have a mode select page for controlling cache parameters. Tim Smith
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!ts From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Comparing performance of Quantum and Imprimis hard disks Message-ID: <22872@cup.portal.com> Date: 8 Oct 89 03:04:42 GMT References: <9009@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 15