I got given a new machine recently, and was surprised to see that hdparm -t /dev/hda gives a speed of 46MB/s
This seems rather high, considering my old 6GB HD on the same machine only manages about 9.5 MB/s.
They both have the same hdparm -T numbers.
Is hdparm -t an accurate measure of hard drive speed?
Cheers, Carl.
PS I finally have a CD-Writer (a BTC DVD/CD-RW combo drive). Haven't tested it (other than reading CD's) yet though. Any gotchas to look out for?
