Thanks for the info Ivan. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Jawahar Tadipatri wrote: > >> Hi Folks,Can anyone please let me know the average/typical time taken for >> completing one IO operation (read and write) to disk? >> More specifically, time taken for writing a string to a file. >> > > Your question is incomplete and cannot be answered correctly. > > Declared average latency for desktop hard drives (see > http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_7200_12.pdf) > is about 4 ms. Real performance depends on about a dozen factors. > > See here: http://www.google.com/search?q=hard+drive+performance for more > information. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"