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Re:Disk Performance: Linode vs. Slicehost by jedsmith on Monday July 05, 2010 @05:09PM (#1489108)
While I agree with bimble's comment about the test not being very scientific, I'm not sure that it's "utter nonsense". It's a person's first impression from using both Linode and Slicehost.

Eivind Uggedal has already beaten scientific comparison to death: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555

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Re:Disk Performance: Linode vs. Slicehost by moe on Monday July 05, 2010 @05:12PM (#1489118)
Yes, so what do we need this, I repeat, utter nonsense for?

hdparm is not a benchmark. Not even close. He could just as well have posted "the linode green looks faster than the slicehost blue".

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