On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 17:08, Klistvud <quotati...@aliceadsl.fr> wrote: > Glad to be of help. Please do read Stan Hoeppner's suggestion in this thread > on using the dd command as a more reliable benchmark! >
The results are interesting: This is the WD10EARS drive, with both /home and / mounted on it in separate partitions: ✈ganymede:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/dotancohen/test.t count=100000 bs=8192 100000+0 records in 100000+0 records out 819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 7.96557 s, 103 MB/s This is an older 160 GB IDE Western Digital drive, that "felt" faster when both /home and / were on it (also in separate partitions), but now the whole drive is /home/music: ✈ganymede:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/music/test.t count=100000 bs=8192 100000+0 records in 100000+0 records out 819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 12.1413 s, 67.5 MB/s This is an older 400 GB IDE Western Digital drive that "felt" no different than the 160 GB unit, that now serves as a backup drive despite it actually being in the same case (I move backups offsite once a month): ✈ganymede:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/backup/test.t count=100000 bs=8192 100000+0 records in 100000+0 records out 819200000 bytes (819 MB) copied, 13.8581 s, 59.1 MB/s ✈ganymede:~$ So despite the "feel" of the drive, the green SATA drive blows the two "snappier" IDE drives out of the water. I wonder why this is, obviously the bottleneck is not the hard drive. I'll run memtest tonight, we'll see where that goes. Anyway, I hope I haven't hijacked, but this thread sure was interesting! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=rhxmzcyaznpaynfutm-fdk2biegjuk7g5d...@mail.gmail.com
