I feel happy with my scsi disks : /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1980 MB in 2.00 seconds = 989.01 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 196 MB in 3.00 seconds = 65.25 MB/sec
P ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ivan Sergio Borgonovo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions > 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 > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
