Re: 15K rpm disk performance

2001-06-23 Thread Douglas Gilbert
MONZ wrote: Anyone got experiences with subj? Docs tells about more uniform performance form outer to inner tracks compared to 10K disks, but then again a swap partition on outer tracks may perform better on 10K disks, since 15K disks are actually slower on outer tracks, according to

Re: 15K rpm disk performance

2001-06-23 Thread Rogier Wolff
Douglas Gilbert wrote: $ time sg_dd if=/dev/sg0 of=/dev/null bs=512 skip=0 count=200k real0m2.542s I always use bs=1024k count=100. This eliminates more of the system-call overhead (I hope...) Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ **