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Nazo · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9zsljfx8tjyzplququr9xmqctclx0qc2mw5xydzx0udqzrfade4qmtrtl5 I think you're missing a digit... I understand when you say random access you mean ac...
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@nprofile1q...

No, I definitely mean 3MB/s. That's been my pretty consistent observation on random-access HDD performance on Linux and Windows. It's *that* slow.

That's assuming all reads miss the cache. Otherwise, yeah, it'll be faster.

I didn't manually rig anything to get this result. This is real-world desktop performance reading many scattered files (which defrag doesn't help much), as reported by GKrellM and Task Manager.

Perhaps a faster HDD would be faster, but 🤷‍♂️.
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Nazo · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq9zsljfx8tjyzplququr9xmqctclx0qc2mw5xydzx0udqzrfade4qmtrtl5 You may have something very wrong in your setup... It should not be a mere 3MB/s in even the worst cases. I could respond with my own anecdote that I've never observed it that slow in ...