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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 1996 20:02:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Cc:        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, scrappy@ki.net, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI Performance under -stable/-current
Message-ID:  <199603310402.UAA01084@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960330173238.2039A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from Tom Samplonius at "Mar 30, 96 05:35:36 pm"

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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.

Depending on the size of the Fireball it is either a 4500 or 5400 rpm
drive.  It is not a 7200RPM drive, that would be a Quantum Atlas series.

> > 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
> 


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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