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How Disk Cache Size Affects Performance by John Protopapas (1998)
Reader John Protopapas sent in the results of his study on disk cache size vs performance that graphically illustrates the relationship of size to Macbench disk mix test scores. Thanks to John for the sending the following info in for publishing. (As you can see in the Graph, the faster Seagate drive shows more benefit.) TEST SYSTEM: SYSTEM POWERBASE 180, 160M RAM, ALL SLOTS FILLED TO THE MAX, ALL TO SPEC 60NS EDO RAM ADAPTEC 2940UW BUS: SCSI(1) SEAGATE ST34501W VER 0018 (EXTERNAL WIDE SCSI) ACTIVE EXT TERM DEV (BOOT DISK) SCSI(0) IBM DORS-32160 VERS WA6A INTERNAL (INTERNAL NARROW SCSI) BUILT IN SCSI BUS: SCSI(2) QUANTUM TRB850S VERS 0404 SCSI(3) PHILIPS PCA80SC V4-2 8X CD-ROM (TERMINATED HERE) SCSI(4) RELISYS SCORPIO V 1.04 SCANNER SCSI(6) IOMEGA ZIP 100 SYSTEM 8.1 HARD DRIVES FORMATTED WITH FWB HDT V 2.06 ADAPTEC CARD CONFIG: SAME RESULTS: BIOS 2.5 AND 3.0 VIDEO TUNER: IMMEDIATE MIDDLE SLOT OF 3 DISCONNECT ENABLED VIDEO: IX MICRO TWIN TURBO M4 (LATEST SOFTWARE) ATI BULT IN 2M VRAM (LATEST SOFTWARE) NOTES: I HAD TO USE [Powerlogix] CACHE CONTROL VERS 1.1.7 - THE LATEST ISSUE 1.2.1 GAVE ME PROBLEMS DURING THE BOOT PROCESS AT TIMES. Thanks John!
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