note moritz <blockquote>(Not to mention that you seem to have really fast disks (SSDs?). Haven't met a HDD yet that could read faster than 150 MB/s or write faster than 100 MB/s.)</blockquote> <p>Or maybe the OS simply caches the reads and delays the writes, leading to faster-than-disk performance. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 984648 984734