Re: IDE Harddrive Performance

Lee Packham
2001-12-19T15:58:20Z

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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