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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:25 Oct 2000 at 11:59:16
Subject:Re: PFS3 settings

Alan Buxey said,

>> I ran some speed tests with 512, 1024 and 2048 blocks and found no
>> difference.

> what speed test did you run....

General real World tests, like copying a directory full of files,
opening a WB window etc.

> and was this on IDE or SCSI.

SCSI.

> it seems to me
> that performance tools read/write in their wown little way...

See above. I tried DiskSpeed, but don't particularly trust benchmark
tools of any kind.

> certainly creation of image-files for CD-writing is much much better on >512
> partitions

I don't see why it should be. Unless you are building audio tracks from
AIFF/WAVE files on disk, building the ISO image is a far more demanding
task than spooling it to disk. It's a unique application anyway, which
is why it's best to use a separate partition for the image files, set up
for their requirements.

Neil



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