Well, it looks like you got lucky. I have a 13 gig and an 8 gig WD and they
are both slow. The funny thing is that the 8 gig is a 5400 rpm drive and
hdparm says it is a shade faster than the 13 gig drive, which is a 7200 rpm
drive...go figure. ...around 4.7 megs/sec each.
I wish I knew this before I bought the drives. I got them at Best Buy and
they sale both WD and Maxtor drives ...it was a flip of the coin then
...should have done my research ...maybe next time!! :)
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>On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, bobby dowling wrote:
>
> > So, there is no way to use DMA on WD drives? Man, this stinks. Why are
>WD
> > hard drives so much slower than others? It seems like this would be
>widely
> > know and people wouldn't but them.
>
>Model=WDC AC310200R
>
>This one works with standard Mandrake hdparm options.
>
>Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.10 seconds = 12.55 MB/sec
>
>It's okay.
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>seb
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