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It's a suprise to me, however IDE drives _are_ PIO, meaning that the CPU
is involved in the transfer of data. I'm amazed that would have any
impact - the disk is SO much slower than the CPU or memory - but it's
theoretically possible that the recovery time from all those interrupts
is marginally faster on the faster computer.
However, that big a difference... I'd be highly skeptical it could be
related to the computer's speed. <shrug>
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