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Re: At last, Omer bought a CD-ROM drive.



On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Omer Zak wrote:

> What is your recommendation for the best Linux CD-ROM (or CD-ROM set), 
> which contains a modern kernel version and other good software?
PHT win hands down on updatedness, and they also include RedHat. Caldera 
probably wins on the Interface and installtion ease.

> By the way, my CD-ROM is Toshiba XM-3701B, which claims to have 6.7x 
> speed.  It has SCSI interface.  The cost was $570 (not including SCSI 
OUCH! almost 3x the price of my 4.4 speed Toshiba for IDE, or double the 
price of the 4.4 Toshiba SCSI! can't be worth it...

> I am curious to know if and what benchmarking programs are available 
> under Linux (for hard disk and CD-ROM performance - singly and 
> simultaneously).
what could be easyer? just do a dd to /dev/null and clock it (and take 
into account that Linux's /dev/null is a bit slow, maybe try to your HD)


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