On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:37, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> The main difference seems related to the drive rotation speed. > I'd be curious about other folk's results. a thing to consider--did you tune with hdparm at all? i detune my (bedroom, caseless) fileserver drives so they'll be quieter (hdparm -M), but i've gotten severely enhanced (like, double) results after playing with some of the other settings. i guess i have no idea if they have as much effect on SATA drives as they did on PATA drives, but i bet they still have some effect. might be worthwhile if you're going to the trouble of doing comparative studies anyway =) sadly i don't have enough free disk space on this machine to run a test right now :/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
