On 21/09/14 06:23 PM, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 240GB > -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w 520ABFF0 > (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the Intel SSD > (LVM) and a partition on the Kingston for my VMs. > > Off lately, I have noticed that the VMs (Windows or Linux) take more > than a minute to give me the login screen. I have destroyed a Linux Mint > VM completely and reinstalled it with no change in performance. My > physical system starts up and gives me the login screen in less than 30sec! > > hdparm gives me the performance of Kingston as below (a normal HDD gives > 75MB/s buffered reads): > > /dev/sdd: > Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.31 seconds = 2.41 MB/sec > > while the Intel: > /dev/sda1: > Timing buffered disk reads: 186 MB in 0.61 seconds = 304.46 MB/sec > Another piece of information: smartmontools shows for Kingston SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
but hdparm -i /dev/sdd does not indicate UDMA setting PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 The Intel shows that it is udma6 though. KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/541f54a2.9030...@fastmail.fm