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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Probably one test cached read/writes, and the XBench one doesn't. Testing uncached performance is extremely synthetic and doesn't tell you much about how a drive will perform with a real workload.
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That makes a lot of sense, actually. Also, it seems that Xbench hasn't been updated since 2003 (if I remember correctly, read it last night).
I got my hands on those disk tools you mentioned earlier in this thread, but I'm not sure which one to run...