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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: SCSI Performance under -stable/-current 
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On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> >  The ncr results should be higher, unless your drives are slow.  On a 
> >-stable system with a 2940 and a Quantum Fireball, I see over 6MB/sec on 
> >file I/O.
> 
> Really?  Is the Fireball a 7200RPM drive?  I would not have expected such

  Yes.  Very nice drive.  But a little pricey.

> high numbers unless you specified a number too low to iozone so you were
> reading out of the cache or you had a very fast drive.

  I used dd.  Results were from writing an 80MB file.

Tom