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 :)
