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testing hardware performance differences

Posted on 3 October 201330 September 2013 By antipaucity 2 Comments on testing hardware performance differences

I’ve been attempting to understand how hard disk cache sizes affect performance recently (and whether it’s worth shelling-out about twice as much for a drive with 128MB vs one with just 64MB).

What would be the best way to personally investigate the performance differences to help determine which is better (if there’s even a noticeable difference)?

What benchmarking tools are best suited for such a task?

technical Tags:benchmark, storage

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Comments (2) on “testing hardware performance differences”

  1. crash025 says:
    3 October 2013 at 05:12

    HDParam is generally used for this. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Benchmarking Wow… you’re using a new template.

  2. Warren says:
    4 October 2013 at 04:11

    thanks for the link

    … and yes 🙂

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