Re: [SLUG] HDD transfer rate

From: mrpeaceful@cfl.rr.com
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 23:04:35 EDT


From: Levi Bard <levi@bard.sytes.net>
Date: Saturday, May 22, 2004 7:34 pm
Subject: [SLUG] HDD transfer rate

> Hey,
> What kind of transfer rate should I expect from a good ATA133 drive?
>

Hey,

Not sure what the "expected" value should be, but for sheer comparison value here's the output from a quick benchmark of my ATA-133 drive.

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads: 1012 MB in 2.00 seconds = 505.32 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.07 seconds = 23.43 MB/sec

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