Perhaps lshw would help you.
ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw
...
*-storage
description: RAID bus controller
product: SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [Non-RAID5 mode]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 11
bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage pm bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=ahci latency=64
resources: irq:22 ioport:b000(size=8) ioport:a000(size=4)
ioport:9000(size=8) ioport:8000(size=4) ioport:7000(size=16)
memory:fe7ffc00-fe7fffff
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST3750528AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
...
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Da Zheng <zhengda1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, each node in the cluster is powerful server. I was told the nodes are
> Dell
> Poweredge SC1435, but I cannot figure out the configuration of hard drives.
> Dell
> provides several possible hard drives for this model.
>
> On 1/25/11 7:59 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
> > This is a really slow drive or controller.
> >
> > Consumer grade 3.5 inch 2TB drives typically can handle 100MB/s. I would
> > suspect in the absence of real information that your controller is more
> > likely to be deficient than your drive. If this is on a laptop or
> > something, then I withdraw my thought.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Da Zheng <zhengda1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The aggregate write-rate can get much higher if you use more drives, but
> a
> >>> single stream throughput is limited to the speed of one disk spindle.
> >>>
> >>> You are right. I measure the performance of the hard drive. It seems
> the
> >> bottleneck is the hard drive, but the hard drive is a little too slow.
> The
> >> average writing rate is 50MB/s.
> >
>
>
