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Old 13th November 2008
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
Yes, but your results are from Virtual image on disk within wirtualization, You wil ALWAYS get "strange" results about disk performance when you use disk in a file for your virtualized OS, I also got strange and realtively faster results then the drive can do even in slower QEMU.
I agree. I got "strange" results when benchmarking Windows VMs too. VMware in particular does a good job with caching, and that seems to confuse the benchmarks. Still, the "seat-of-the-pants" meter agrees subjectively with the speed differences of the various drives I reported above.
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