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Subject: Re: disk performance benchmarks.
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Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 02:38:00 EST
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Don Speck writes:

>When dumping every file on the disk to tape, our vax-780 with its 4K
>blocksize gets only about twice the disk throughput of the 3b20 sitting
>next to it doing 1K reads.

I would be interested in seeing what the 780 does with 2 and 3K blockss.
I also wonder what kind of drives and bus are on the 3b20 and 780...

   Steve Blasingame (Oklahoma City)
   bsteve@gorgo.att.com