From: "Mark Lane" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > On May 26, 2004 11:14 am, Si Jones <si@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Me and someone else are getting what seems to be a slow speed out of the > > hard drive, we have the sil3114 controller and we get 55mb a sec. > > > > I assume you mean 55 MegaBytes (MB) not milibits (mb). > > Hmm, 55MB/s is pretty fast for a single IDE drive. The only time you will > approach 100+ mb/s is talking directly with the drive's cache. Not even 15K > SCSI drives do much over 60MB/s as the drive physically can't read and write > 100+ MB/s. Okay, stupid question here...where could I check the numbers for my drives? I've got an IDE and a SATA and I'm curious to see how they're doing. Thanks! Ben
