> Hi > > Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of > your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there > any software which can measure hard drive performance?
I've used it, and it worked well. I think I've maxed the performance out on my drives. The drawbacks....I am not sure. My drives are at least 4 years old and working fine. hdparm -tT device measures the speed of your hard drive transfer rate (-t is read to memory, -T read to disk cache) Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org <--All the pages bundled together. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
