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Even though Bob's numbers below on the optimization test show that the
machines with the ATA drives are faster, this is completely due to the
processor configuration. TS optimization runs do not hit the drive so even
if you were running from a RAM disk, it would not improve the numbers over
optimizing off a floppy disk connected thru a parallel port. Not impuning
Bob and not disputing these figures, just pointing this out to all the
people who might not know otherwise. As always, it's better to have factual
information to make decisions with than supposition.
Kent
btw Bob, what are the "rk" and "bf" designations on the Athlons?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: FPI <fpi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: SCSI drives
TradeStation Optimization Tests
The time per test was as follows (in seconds). (The total time for an
optimization run would be these numbers multiplied be the number of
tests performed in the run.)
OS TS4.0 TS2000i TS2000i
SP4c SP5
HP Pavilion 8550 Celeron 500 Win98 6.4
Gateway GP6 PII 300 WinNT 6.4
Gateway E-5200 PIII 500 WinNT 5.3 4.7 2.3
RK-500 (AMD K6 500) Win2000 4.9* 5.5**
Athlon A-750rk machine*** Win2000 2.3 1.4
Athlon A-750bf machine**** Win2000 1.4
* 20 GB IDE disk
** 9 GB SCSI disk
*** Ultra ATA66 disk
**** Ultra ATA100 2-disk RAID array
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