Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
Hello,
So will it help if I have a faster processor or I add in more
RAM to my system?
On 7/3/07, *John Wendel* < john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
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> On 7/2/07, *John Wendel* < john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 19:14 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni
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> > > My motherboard supports hard disk speed of
150MB/s but i
> get only
> > > 15MB/s speed
> >
> > Have you double-checked that the figures you're
reading at
> are bits per
> > second or bytes per second?
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> > Hello,
> > Yes I have checked with the motherboard
> specifications.It
> > says that it supports
> > a speed of 150MB/s.It is bytes for
second.Though my
> hard disk
> > supports native command queing my motherboard does not
support
> it.
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> It doesn't matter what speed your motherboard (SATA
controller)
> supports if the disk speed is slower. What brand/model of
disk
> do you
> have? What kernel version? How are you measuring the disk
speed?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
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> Hello,
> I have a Seagate ST3160211AS.It is a Barracuda 160GB
hard
> disk with a
> speed of 7200RPM.It supports upto 300MB/s with Native
> Command Queing.I checked the average speed of copying by
copying a
> 3GB file from one FAT32 partition to another.I got a
> average speed of around
> 15MB/s.I have the kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
> Thanks...
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> Can anyone please help me...do i need to update to the latest
> kernel??or do i need
> to download some drivers.
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You don't really have a problem!
Don't confuse the maximum interface transfer speed (150 MB/s) with
your disk transfer speed (approx 40-50 MB/s).
When you copy a file, you read the old file, and then you write the
new file, rinse and repeat until done. So your transfer speed is going
to be approximately 1/2 to disk speed. And now you need to add in the
operating system overhead, allocating blocks for the new file, and all
the seek time, moving the disk heads between the old file blocks and
the new file blocks.
15 MB/s seems reasonable. On my box, using a single drive, I get a
write speed of 30 MB/s for a 3 GB file and a copy speed of 14 MB/s.
Need more speed, get more disks and a raid controller.
Regards,
John
Faster processor can help lots of things, but not disk speed. More
memory (usually) helps, the kernel can use it for disk cache if
nothing else.
Anybody else out there got any advice for speeding up SATA drives ?
Regards,
John
