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From: rob@prism.TMC.COM
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Subject: Re: Dell 310 flame (of sorts)
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Date: 5 Oct 89 13:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: prism.TMC.COM!rob    Oct  5 09:32:00 1989


   Jumping into the fray...

   A question - have you actually compared the Dell 310 with other machines 
at doing 'real world' tasks, or just on hardware benchmarks? I have a Dell 
325 (a 25Mhz version of the 310, basically), and on disk bound tasks, I have 
yet to find a machine that can beat it. The disk's low level measurements 
are good-but-not-great in some areas (transfer rate of 550K/sec) and 
excellent in others (avg. seek time of 14ms), but the overall performance 
is outstanding. 

   When a cache is thrown in (which I'd think anyone doing disk intensive
work would want), the measurements naturally change (yielding an impressive, 
though meaningless, transfer rate of 4MB/sec), but it still outperforms 
other machines by a fair margin. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to 
someone wanting a high-performance machine.