Here's what my "hunk O junk" does pretty crummy by your
standards!!
Vern
PS. Looks like I'm due for a tuneup!
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.62 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec
Albert wrote:
>
> Depending on the motherboard / chipset
>
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda is the common flag
>
> Here is a snip from this machine
>
> /dev/hdb:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.68 seconds =76.19 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds =19.45 MB/sec
>
> We have others on the bench with 150 MB/sec buffer-cache and disk reads of 26
> MB/sec
>
> HTH
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > I am running Mdk 7-2 with 13 GB HD and DMA33. When I ran my first
> > hdparm -t to test the drive read speed the results were only 3 MB/sec and the
> > RealPlayer radio I had running was shut down.
> > After setting the dma and unmask flags to on ,the test speed jumped to
> > 14 MB/sec and RealPlayer did not cut out.
> > What are the average disk read speeds to be expected with such a hard
> > drive and is there anything else to optimize speed ?
> > This seems like a worthwhile tweak for those who suspect their hd
> > speed is slowing down the system. Just like to pass this along fyi and to see
> > what others are getting on this speed test.
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