Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-18 Thread Andrew Hately 
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 Hi
 
 Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of
 your ide hard drives?  Does it work and are there any drawbacks?  Is there
 any software which can measure hard drive performance?

Me
Yes, not that I noticed
hdparm itself and (more convincingly) timing a few big transfers between
partitions or drives, eg a cdrom image

Andrew


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hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-17 Thread zdrysdal 
Hi

Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of
your ide hard drives?  Does it work and are there any drawbacks?  Is there
any software which can measure hard drive performance?


thanx

Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov 
 Hi
 
 Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of
 your ide hard drives?  Does it work and are there any drawbacks?  Is there
 any software which can measure hard drive performance?

I've used it, and it worked well.
I think I've maxed the performance out on my drives. The drawbacksI am
not sure. My drives are at least 4 years old and working fine.
hdparm -tT device measures the speed of your hard drive transfer rate
(-t is read to memory, -T read to disk cache)
Andrew


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