Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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At last... here it is! The SPARCstation5 disk IO battle royale! This video compares the relative performance of SEVEN different disk configurations for a variety of tasks on a SPARCstation5. Which disk will I decide is the best drive for my uses in this SPARCstation5?

00:00 Intro
01:35 Description of the benchmarks
08:19 Disk introduction: Seagate ST31200WC
10:30 Sad hard drive noises :(
11:14 Disk introduction: Seagate ST31051N
12:30 Disk introduction: Quantum FBSTS 2.1S
13:24 Disk introduction: Quantum 9100S
15:10 Disk introduction: IBM DDRS-34560
16:32 Disk introduction: SCSI2SD 5.0a
18:29 Disk introduction: SCSI2SD 6
19:17 Disk introduction: Seagate ST3146707LC
23:06 Getting the ST3146707LC working in Solaris 2.6
31:07 Bonnie++ benchmark results
36:21 Application benchmark results
41:52 Closing remarks

Bonnie++:

sourceforge.net/projects/bonnie

GitHub repository with GCC for SPARC Solaris 2.6:

github.com/ianromanick/gcc

Google sheet containing the raw performance data:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y3IQ9DGx_BXbjlThHSOdmP3PD0pvZbher0v_CGNTtg4

#UNIX #SPARC #SCSI2SD