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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 usi

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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555

moe 16y ago
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".