Anarky wrote:
you know ... turns out this slowdown only happens when copying from fat32 to fat32 ... when copying from fat32 to linux partition it's constantly at about 9mb/second. Still, acording to your huge test results my hdds might be somehow missconfigured, or is
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.85 seconds =150.59 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.87 seconds = 34.22 MB/sec
normal for a 7200 rpm 20Gb Ibm drive?
My 40 g Maxtor gives, hdparm -tT /dev/hda Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.56 seconds =228.57 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.67 seconds = 38.32 MB/sec
I think my main is exactly that 40gb Maxtor .. and it only gives 150mb/sec! what could be wrong?
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