On September 16, 2004 10:02 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm running on an Hitachi/IBM 5400rpm 80GB 8MB Cache and I get > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1284 MB in 2.00 seconds = 641.46 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.05 seconds = 34.78 MB/sec I've got some sort of 40 GB 4200RPM (don't know how much cache) disk in my laptop and I'm getting: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 420 MB in 2.01 seconds = 209.20 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 34 MB in 3.10 seconds = 10.97 MB/sec changes to hdparm make no difference in the above stats. -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
