Computer components speed comparison chart

[geekender]

A while back I saw a chart that went from dial up to t-1 speed to ata to scsi to memory to processor speeds. It basically was saying that whatever you have on this list at the lowest point is the bottleneck. I wanted to show it to my students but cant find it anywhere. Anyone seen one of these?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: geekender
A while back I saw a chart that went from dial up to t-1 speed to ata to scsi to memory to processor speeds. It basically was saying that whatever you have on this list at the lowest point is the bottleneck. I wanted to show it to my students but cant find it anywhere. Anyone seen one of these?

I've seen those, but don't know where. Good luck.

One thing to point out to them is that the assumption that the slowest part is the bottleneck is often wrong. For example, my slowest part is probably the floppy drive, but in typical use that is NOT the bottleneck. Same can be said for most uses with the hard drive. A spell check in Word (very typical use) is not bottlenecked by the slow hard drive.

 

[geekender]

Good point. I usually just say that it is whatever component that is being used.

 

[geekender]

For those who care, this is really close.