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From: hawk@pnet01.cts.com (John Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Controller Speed tests
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Date: 3 Dec 90 05:36:38 GMT
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  When Hard drive speed-test programs are run, they usually show four speeds.
With 512 buffers, 1024, etc. My question is why do the need to show with
different amount of buffers and why do people always pick the one with the
most when comparing speeds?  If the different speeds were for different sized
files etc, then people should average them together to give an average speed
not the fastest in rarest cases?  Is this correct?  I don't understand?