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- From: ipadavic@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Irene Padavic)
- Subject: Re: WD Caviar 2200 slow?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 02:59:28 GMT
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- liuyu@acf5.NYU.EDU (liuyu) writes:
- > ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >
- > >Yes. Try a recent version of CORE test. It's pretty consistent ALTHOUGH it
- > >sometimes gets confused by caching and reports very high performance (but
- > >misleading) figures with some caches enabled.
- >
- > I just tried CORE test (v 2.92) I found on wuarchive. It showed 1.89 meg/s.
- > Amazingly different... Maybe this version is too old. It is dated 1990.
- >
- > Anyway, thanks for the detailed reply!
-
- Using CORE 2.92 on my 2250 I got 1.64 megs. Gateway had estimated 1.5
- when they sold it to me. And, it sure doesn't seem noisy compared to the
- Microscience it replaced.
-
- Randy Earnest c/o ipadavic@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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