John Summerfield wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> Todd Simi wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I know this may be a silly question since it probably a hardware >>> limitation, >>> but I'm running F7 and would like to know what I can do to increase >>> the hard >>> drive seek time, if anything. >>> >>> I have a pretty new SATA drive at 3GB/sec and it seems to have to >>> seek longer >>> than I'd expect. >> >> FWIW, the SATA spec is 3Gbits/sec and I believe that hdparm is reporting >> MBytes/sec. > > You're right, of course, but the data coming off the surface still isn't > going to do it at 3 Bits/sec. For sure....just wanted to make certain the OP was comparing apples to apples. > Mainframes _do_ do 3 Gbytes/sec, and more;-) Sure do... Sometimes wish I had one of those...but then again not sure I could afford the electric bill.
