Re: IDE Harddrive Performance

Ryan Cumming (bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org)
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:22:15 -0800

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
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