Re: IDE Harddrive Performance

[Lee Packham]

Dunno, just tried this on my box which has a 5400 RPM disk in and got 

[root@smeg lpackham]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hdc

7200RPM on the on board
/dev/hdc:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.94 seconds = 16.24 MB/sec
[root@smeg lpackham]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hdg

7200RPM on a promise Ultra ATA 66
/dev/hdg:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.02 seconds = 21.19 MB/sec
[root@smeg lpackham]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda

5400RPM on the on board
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  4.23 seconds = 15.13 MB/sec

> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 11:32 am, Thomas Deselaers wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I do have an Asus P2B-S Mainboard and since a week I have a Maxtor 60
>> GB 5400 rpm Harddrive (MAXTOR 4K060H3).
>>
>> I tried the performance of the drive and got some results which are
>> quite low I think.
>>
>> hdparm -t /dev/hdc returns
>>
>> /dev/hdc:
>>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  5.63 seconds = 11.37 MB/sec
>>
>> What would be a value I can expect from my hardware? And what might
>> result in higher speeds?
>>
>> thanks,
>> thomas
> 
> I dont really know, I dont think its possible to get higher then that
> from a  5400 RPM disk. Heres mine,
> 
> FUJITSU 40.9GB MPG3409AT 5400 RPM
> 
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  7.96 seconds =  8.04 MB/sec
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  7.07 seconds =  9.05 MB/sec
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  6.70 seconds =  9.55 MB/sec
> 
> Seems pretty normal to me. However yours is alot better then mine. -
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