On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:53, Arturo di Gioia wrote:
I'm experiencing a rough 35MB/s of sequential read speed with my current ATA133 HD.
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
One can easily get better performance using software raid.
This is using ATA100 with 2 disks on the same IDE cable:
hdparm -tT /dev/md0
/dev/md0: Timing buffer-cache reads: 884 MB in 2.00 seconds = 442.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 136 MB in 3.02 seconds = 45.03 MB/sec
If you need fast disk access string a bunch of cheap disks in RAID-5. Buy one extra for a spare for automatic failover...
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