Re: IDE Harddrive Performance

Ryan Cumming
2001-12-20T17:22:32Z

On December 20, 2001 09:10, Brendan Pike wrote:
> [root@spikes spike]# /sbin/hdparm -T /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.89 seconds = 32.90 MB/sec

phalynx:/home/bodnar42# hdparm -T /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.63 seconds =203.17 MB/sec

Either you have an old computer with absolutely horrible memory bandwidth, or
something is really wrong here.

-Ryan