Here is a bonnie (tested with -s of 3x physical RAM) on my new home
system:
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
384 5381 83.6 8894 15.6 3603 12.1 5749 76.4 12043 15.6 127.9 1.5
This is an ext2 filesystem on twin IBM Deskstar 10 GXP drives. These
are *IDE* drives, 9.5 ms 7200 rpm. Each one has a dedicated UDMA bus.
I have never been a fan of IDE, but I bought the pair of drives for
about $520 and used the on-motherboard controllers that would
otherwise be idle. The total cost was just over $0.05 per megabyte
for *redundant* storage with very good speed, thanks to the Linux
software RAID.
This is better performance, and much better price/performance, than I
get at work with an unmirrored Quantum Viking II on an NCR 53c875.
Thank you, Ingo!
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Shields.
