--- Jeff Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CPU speed does affect disk performance. More so > for IDE drives than > SCSI drives. At least that's my experience when > benchmarking hard > drives. I saw a marked difference in disk > performance between having > a 200 MHz 604e installed and a G3/300. There may > be some point at > which the hard disk need for CPU performance > saturates and faster CPU > does not increase disk performance, but I don't have > a fast enough > CPU to find that point.
Well the drive in there right now is only an 80meg. I know that replacing it would improve stats anyway, but it's interesting that the drive could slow down with the old processor. I thought that the only way that was accomplished was with the interleave factor. The Plus was too slow for hard drives and drives needed to be set to a factor of 3 to work. I understood this to mean that the platters made 3 revolutions instead of 1 to write data. I never had a CPU that needed an interleave of 2, assuming there was one. I guess I really haven't kept up with drives since it's all kinda automatic now. Obviously there are lots of bus speeds involved now, but most SCSI drives dumb down to where they need to be to work ... only I don't know how that happens. It'll be interesting to see how the drive tests come out. ===== Steve Hardy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
