From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ross@lug.udel.edu (Ross Vandegrift) Subject: Re: SATA performace Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:47:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20060103044759.GA8876@lug.udel.edu> References: <17336.42843.779496.644030@smtp.charter.net> <000d01c61017$ea630d10$3224050a@avilespaxp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000d01c61017$ea630d10$3224050a@avilespaxp> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Aviles Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:43:47PM -0500, Paul Aviles wrote: > Are SATA drives similar in performance than IDE drives? I have tested > Barracudas 7200.0 (500Gb) and WD too on the same type of servers (more than > 1 unit) and what I am getting is painfully slow in terms of read/writes. > Anyone out there with similar experience or this is just my isolated > results? Probably depends on your controller and configuration. If it's an integrated controller, boot into your BIOS and make sure that any kind of "Native/Legacy Mode" option is set to "Native mode". I don't know what the difference is, but I've seen Legacy mode boxes crawl... -- Ross Vandegrift ross@lug.udel.edu "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37