On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:01:08 +0100 Arturo di Gioia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two numbers from hdparms, just for very rough comparison > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 888 MB in 2.00 seconds = 442.89 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 124 MB in 3.04 seconds = 40.72 MB/sec With my cheapo parallel 40Gb WD I get nearly the same result (as I actually would expect) about 1% less on buffered disk reads and 0.2% less on cache. Most SATA drives are just PATA retrofitted drives now. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
