Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Thanks for the input guys...
> I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing...
> and I'll share my results if anyone's interested.....
>
> The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files
>
> Imac 400 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive
> time= 53 seconds
>
> Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive
> time= 80 seconds
>
> Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram SCSI drive
> time=21 seconds...
>
> Weird... seems like hard drive performance is
> very important too....:)
You might do well to check out storagereview.com for disk performance stuff,
there's a bit more to it than most people think :)
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