Re: Re(2): 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

[Derek Morton]

I haven't seen anybody mention it, but what about the benefit of SCSI manager 4.3? A Quadra 800 will definitely benefit from it, and the performance boost MIGHT be as great as 50%. Try removing the SCSI Manager extension and see if the performance drops down to 7.1.1 levels. Also, don't forget that different areas of the same hard drive have different performance characteristics. The first partition will perform better than the second. I would also suggest using MacBench to test your systems. The benchmarking provided by speedometer is quit poor in comparison. Additionally, it is vital that you defragment your drive immediately before doing any sort of hard disk benchmarking, fragmentation can kill you performance. I do my benchmarking with a blank formated drive, with a single partition only a large as it needs to be (in the 200 Meg range)... And definitely not the system drive.

Just my 2¢

Derek


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