Kelly wrote:
Think I've found a source of my constant crashing. I have a Maxtor
SATA 250GB drive. I started poking around google and came up with the
hdparm test. I ran it and got
Timing cached reads: 816 MB in 2.01 seconds
A respectable IDE drive and do 3000mb in 2.00 seconds.
So my drive is running at 20% efficiency. That will make a difference.
Ummm... No. You're reading the results wrongly, I'm afraid :)
I would seriously doubt you'd see 1.5Gb / sec outside the datacentre.
150Mb / sec... _maybe_.
Cached reads are just that - It reads the same sector over and over.
This means it's already in drive's read cache. So what you're seeing
here is the transfer rate from the controller without (much) SATA
latency, no seek latency, no rotational latency. That's not the test you
want. You want 'buffered disk reads'. This is the (almost real) raw
performance of the drive.
Here's the results from my array, which is a 8 disk RAID5, spread over 2
SATA controllers on a PCI-X dual Xeon (yes, I believe overkill _is_ just
a word):
hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2204 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1101.07 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 374 MB in 3.01 seconds = 124.31 MB/sec
The 'buffered disk reads' is the line you're looking for. And 124Mb /
sec is quite good for this type of setup.
Cheers,
Allan.
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