On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 07:42, John Richard Smith wrote: <snipping the birds wings> > > > > > 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 > > John
WD 120 gb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.19 seconds =673.68 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.45 seconds = 44.14 MB/sec No idea if thats normal or good or bad.. i dunno what i'm looking for..so thought i'd throw this in & ask. :) I ran the test 3 times too... thats the last reading. -- Femme On MDK 9.1, more or less 24/7...cept for gaming. Finally. :D
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