It seems Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > Guess I just didn't look hard enough or in the right place. I only spent a > minute or 2 on it, but yeah ATA drives don't tell you that sort of thing, > they say stuff like "ATA133 for a max transfer rate of 133 MB/sec *" then > at the bottom the * says something like "133 MB/sec burst rate from drive > to controller" or something similar. But I did try fairly hard to find > specs on our Seagate drives and couldn't find a hard number that told what > the maximum read and write speeds were.
Thats maybe true for some drives, but generally they state this info in their docs, for the Diamond 9+ it took me < 10 secs to find the below transfer speeds, I did have the PDF handy though :) Disk to Read Once a 236Mb/sec 236Mb/sec 236Mb/sec 236Mb/sec Revolution mminimum minimum minimum minimum 433Mb/sec 433Mb/sec 433Mb/sec 433Mb/sec maximum maximum maximum maximum Disk to Read 257Mb/sec 257Mb/sec 257Mb/sec 257Mb/sec Instantaneously minimum minimum minimum minimum 472Mb/sec 472Mb/sec 472Mb/sec 472Mb/sec maximum maximum maximum maximum -Søren _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"