title: Benchmark Server Performance with Classic ASP & Disk I/O?
body: <p>Is there some way like a script we can run <code>n</code> times in a loop to benchmark classic ASP CPU computation time and disk I/O from server to server?  That is, run on a local workstation, then a local Pentium dev server with rotational disk, then a entry level production server with RAID 01, then a virtualized cloud production server, then a quad-core xeon server with SSDs, etc.  So we can see "how much faster" the servers are from one to the next.  The only tricky part is testing SQL and I/O testing.   Perhaps the script could compute at random and then write a 10gb file to disk or a series of 1gb files and then time how long it takes to create them, write them, copy/move them, read them in and calculate and MD5 on them and spit out the results to the client, say, in a loop of n times.  What we're trying to do is prove with a control set of code and tasks server performance from one machine to the next.</p>