On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > Oh, and one other thing; hdparm is only meant to get you the continuous I/O > transfer rate. It's an awful benchmark for anything else, like what happens > if a file is fragmented or how fast it can copy/write data spread around the > disk, how good it is at combined random I/O operation, etc.
For that kind of information, go with bonnie++ I've little else to add to the thread, except that I ran three Seagate 1.5TB 'green' drives in RAID5 for quite a while with very nice perforance results. Access times were comfy, and I tended to get about 60MB/s continuous read and write speed. I hadn't learned about bonnie++ yet, so I don't have any good benchmarks to show on that front. -- :wq
