[CUBE] barracuda iv seems slow

[Paul Allsopp]

Hi Bill

No, I've used about 30gb of 80. Plus I've run Norton's speed disk 
thingy and its not fragged.  Don't know why xbench is reporting such a 
low benchmark...

Thanks for your reply

Paul

On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Bill Fox wrote:

> That is low. Is it pretty full and fragged so Xbench has to hunt a lot 
> to find space to write and read its test data?
>
> Bill
>
> On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Paul Allsopp wrote:
>
>> I've been looking with interest at the xbench results post on the 
>> www.cubeowner.com forum.  It seems as if the 80gb barracuda iv in my 
>> cube is running paprticularly slow - around 55 compared to upwards of 
>> 80 on other people's machines.  Anyone have any ideas as to why this 
>> might be the case?