From: Bruce@hoult.actrix.gen.nz Subject: Re: IDE faster than Mips SCSI disk Date: 9 Nov 1992 07:11:45 GMT
Othman Ahmad Writes:
> IOZONE performance measurements:
> 345684 bytes/second for writing the file
> 641985 bytes/second for reading the file
> IOZONE performance measurements:
> 367586 bytes/second for writing the file
> 499942 bytes/second for reading the file
Those are *both* nowhere near the limits of a cheap hard disk.
Recently I used the MPW "Search" command (equivalent to grep) to look for
a simple string in a directory of text files. Each file was about 100KB to
200KB in size, for a total size of 45MB (about 300 files).
The search took 30 seconds, or 1.5MB/sec -- that's 2.5 to 3 times faster than
your numbers. The disk was a cheap Quantum 240MB 3.5" SCSI-1 and the
Macintosh was a Quadra 700 (25 MHz '040).