On May 26, 2004 01:53 pm, "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > For real world numbers you need to run a spec program like bonnie++. http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ You need to use really big file sizes to not see the caching effects however. -- Mark Lane, CET mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx Hard Data Ltd. http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our Excellent 1U Systems! <--
