AnandTech brings back hard drive reviews!
The biggest argument to why you would ever need a faster CPU is often that everything is disk limited anyways, so getting a faster CPU isn’t the solution to your performance woes. While, to an extent, this is true, we have seen over the years that quite a few things are just as CPU bound as they are disk bound.
We’ve shown in the past that even very disk intensive operations, such as extracting a zip archive, can vary significantly with CPU. We’ve also shown that disk bound benchmarks, such as Winstone, can significantly reduce the performance benefit seen when upgrading to a faster CPU.
Submitted by: Leonardo
Source: AnandTech
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