u/7heKK

More or less posting on this sub as the DIT sub is dead, and I’ve seen some checksum posts in this sub, so thought this sub might be appropriate for a specific technical question regarding file transfers and checksum.

Building a DIT kit for live grading and media management, and I am looking to buy a system (probably a mac mini) specifically for dumping files using Shotput. From my reading, I’m seeing that CPU and RAM performance has an effect on checksum speeds, but I was struggling to see that claim quantified.

If CPU actually has a significant effect on speeds, is there any resource out there that benchmarks and compares different CPUs/core counts/threads/clock speeds with checksum durations? Don’t want to buy a system for it to be utter garbage compared to something else because a single spec is minutely different. I’ve mostly only had to use xxHash, but some clients required MD5, which I know is slower and is impacted by the CPU speeds more.

Thanks!

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u/7heKK — 10 days ago