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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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