From: Ronald W. Heiby (heiby_at_falkor.chi.il.us)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 11:28:58 EDT
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Hello ThinkPad,
I just got my first real indication of the speed difference between my
latest ThinkPad and that it is replacing.
TP 770ED with 24Gig HD and 224Meg RAM under Win98SE
TP A21p with 32Gig HD and 128Meg RAM under Win2K Pro
I had created a set of backup files, of approximately 650Meg each, to
be burned onto CD-R media. I had copied them over the network from my
A21p to my 770ED (which has a CD-RW drive in its dock). I wanted to be
sure that my network copy worked fine, so ran the MKS Toolkit version
of the Unix 'sum' program on the files on each machine, using the '-r'
option.
I did not specifically time the operations, and the 770ED was started
a few seconds after the A21p. The 770ED has its files on a mostly
unfragmented FAT32 partition. The A21p has its files on a fairly
heavily fragmented FAT32 partition.
The A21p finished its sum operations *significantly* before the 770ED
finished its first. In fact, I am now done typing this message, and
the 770ED is still working on the last file.
Wow!
Ron.
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