On 11/16/05, Stephen J. Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A lot of commodity disk-drives are sub-par on these areas. This
means
that programs will slow down because you are spending a lot of time
waiting for the disk-drive to give you bits because it keeps plugging
up its cache or not able to get various items off disk as fast as
advertised.
Is there some reasonably valid understanding of how big an impact this
makes in the average and worst case? Sort of a measure of the spread
of disk-drive performance out in the wild.
Say for example...a typical christmas special home desktop from
Dell... does the disk-seek performance on a system like that make an
order of magnitude faster bootup or application startup times a
pipedream?
-jef