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From: romeo@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Disk Access Time: SE/30 vs. IIcx
Message-ID: <5550@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Nov 89 18:17:07 GMT
Reply-To: romeo@lindy.UUCP (Patrick Goebel)
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Organization: Stanford Data Center
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We have both a Mac SE/30 and a IIcx at my workplace.  I have had the
occasion to use both machines side-by-side and I'd swear that the
SE/30 is substantially faster on disk read-writes.  Informal
benchmarks with a stop watch puts the SE/30 about 25% faster than the
IIcx when it comes to file duplication and application start-up from
the hard disk.  Both machines are configured with 4 Mb RAM and an
internal SCSI 80 Mb hard disk.

I am puzzled because advertised specs suggest that the two machines
should perform identically.  I am also on the verge of purchasing one
of the two systems for my own use and would therefore like
confirmation of my observation.

Any comments?

patrick--romeo@lindy.Stanford.EDU