Lo,
At 15:37 09/12/2011, you wrote:
Back a few weeks during the IDE vs. SCSI and hacking for a slimmer
World threads I was experimenting with SCSI in my G4 MDD DP. I had
found using Disk Speed Bench X that one of my IDE drives was faster
so I made that one the start up drive. I then got a used U320 15k
RPM SCSI drive set up as an alternative start up drive and cloned
the original start up drive onto it. The computer definitely feels
faster when booted from the SCSI disk, which belies the results Disk
Speed Bench X provided. So I decided to install Xbench and do a
more comprehensive comparison test. The results show a definite
advantage from running a SCSI drive.
More than double the speed for read and write throughput compared to
the IDE drive. The memory test was a smidge faster under the SCSI
boot but as well but I don't know if that is just statistical anomaly or real.
How good are the IDE and scsi controllers in the Mirror door?
Is either an add on PCI card?
I seem to remember that the controller in the computer has a big influence on
both speed and also the amount of CPU load that is used for each operation.
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
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