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		gopher on Oct 20, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MySQL Disk Benchmarks with Sysbench. When will myS... First, hard disks are written from outside to inside making them faster in the beginning and second, linear IO does not count for databases.

thwarted on Oct 21, 2008 [–]

I'll let Calvin's dad speak to that.

http://www.dailyfiber.net/calvin.php?n=1661

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