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can my iMac 2.8 i5 be this slow
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<blockquote data-quote="berrill" data-source="post: 1170213" data-attributes="member: 33216"><p>I bought this iMac as I needed to have one at home and at the office. (I have thrown out my old office pc good riddance)</p><p></p><p>pigoo3, thats great advise, I downloaded Xbench, if I understand the results correctly my iMac as being compared to a powermac G5 late 2004</p><p></p><p>My iMac is clearly faster in all areas except for the disk test. I am only going at 60% of the base line speed of a G5 - in all other areas I am averaging 300% faster.</p><p></p><p>Disk Test</p><p><span style="color: Red">iMac" imac 2.8 intel core i5</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">PowerMac G5 (June 2004)</span></p><p></p><p>Disk Test</p><p><span style="color: Red">60.79</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">100.00</span></p><p></p><p>Uncached Read</p><p><span style="color: Red">98.99</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">100.00</span></p><p><span style="color: Red">28.97 MB/sec [4K blocks]</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">28.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]</span></p><p></p><p>Random</p><p><span style="color: Red"> 38.01</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">100.00</span></p><p></p><p>Uncached Write</p><p> <span style="color: Red">11.65</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">100.00</span></p><p><span style="color: Red">1.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">11.13 MB/sec [4K blocks]</span></p><p></p><p>Can you explain to me what the above means, logic tells me that if my new hdd is slower than one that is over 6 years old there is a problem with the hard drive. </p><p>See my first post I said the hard drive seems to always be crunching away, its a lot louder than my old iMac.</p><p></p><p>is this the problem?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="berrill, post: 1170213, member: 33216"] I bought this iMac as I needed to have one at home and at the office. (I have thrown out my old office pc good riddance) pigoo3, thats great advise, I downloaded Xbench, if I understand the results correctly my iMac as being compared to a powermac G5 late 2004 My iMac is clearly faster in all areas except for the disk test. I am only going at 60% of the base line speed of a G5 - in all other areas I am averaging 300% faster. Disk Test [COLOR="Red"]iMac" imac 2.8 intel core i5[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]PowerMac G5 (June 2004)[/COLOR] Disk Test [COLOR="Red"]60.79[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]100.00[/COLOR] Uncached Read [COLOR="Red"]98.99[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]100.00[/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]28.97 MB/sec [4K blocks][/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]28.29 MB/sec [4K blocks][/COLOR] Random [COLOR="Red"] 38.01[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]100.00[/COLOR] Uncached Write [COLOR="Red"]11.65[/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]100.00[/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]1.23 MB/sec [4K blocks][/COLOR] [COLOR="Blue"]11.13 MB/sec [4K blocks][/COLOR] Can you explain to me what the above means, logic tells me that if my new hdd is slower than one that is over 6 years old there is a problem with the hard drive. See my first post I said the hard drive seems to always be crunching away, its a lot louder than my old iMac. is this the problem? [/QUOTE]
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