Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:25:26 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/obj size Message-ID: <199611031155.WAA08531@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <E0vJwNE-0000xW-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Nov 2, 96 11:49:36 pm
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > > I'm very happy with my JAZ drive, but it is a little on the slow > side. About 70% as fast as my Quantum Prodrive 1225, near as I can > tell. When I got mine, the ZIP drives were $199 and the JAZ drives > had just dropped to $399 internal so I figured 10x the storage for > 2x the price was hard to say no to. I get about 1.2M/sec reading and a bit over 3M/sec writing (?!) using iozone on mine (80/8192 on a 24M p83, reasonably -current, NCR PCI). For a 1G portable floppy drive, it's quite respectable. > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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