Re: Hard Drive data rates

Dave Stevens wrote:

On Friday 28 September 2007 10:50:32 am Karl Larsen wrote:

    I was lead to mis-understand the data rate of my new SATA hard
drive. It indicated that the data rate was 3 GB/sec. But some checking
with Google said the Hard Drive makers are very free with their units.
To be specific a SATA drive is 3000 MegaBits/second. This boils down to
about 375 MB.

    The old standard IDE parallel 40 pin plug is rated for a rate of 112
MB at the fastest to 78 GB at the slowest part of the platter. So in my
case I will not see a huge change moving to my SATA hard drive. I will
stay here on the new IDE much longer.

I'd be very interested in seeing the command and output for that drive using hdparm -iItT

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Karl,

I use a Seagate 320 gig ES SATA drive. This is a 3 Gb/sec drive BUT - it was

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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