Probably is a good (at least relative) indication. I get.... 15.5 Mb per sec on my old 13Gb drive and 40 MB per sec on my newer 40 Gb drive
Rob On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 17:00, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Hi, > > 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? -- Robert Fisher www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz
