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sonix
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 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:24 am Post subject: Slow Hard Drives makes bush cry :'( |
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my hard drive is a fairly new 250gig maxtor here is what it says in hdparm
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/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 30515/255/63, sectors = 251000193024, start = 0
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/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1380 MB in 2.00 seconds = 688.38 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 100 MB in 3.00 seconds = 33.32 MB/sec
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These are horrible speeds for an ata 133 hard drive! whats wrong?!
I also have a sata drive. check this out
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/dev/sda:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 14593/255/63, sectors = 120034123776, start = 0
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1552 MB in 2.00 seconds = 775.73 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 158 MB in 3.01 seconds = 52.46 MB/sec
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John5788
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:37 am Post subject: |
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its not that slow, it also depends on your motherboard
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sonix
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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its an abit NF7-S v2
30 megs/sec for a ata133 (133mb/sec) and 50 megs/sec for a sata (150mb/sec) drive isnt slow?
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John5788
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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what harddrives are both?
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sonix
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sata is a barracuda 120gig
ide is diamond max 9 250gig |
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razamatan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| sonix wrote: | its an abit NF7-S v2
30 megs/sec for a ata133 (133mb/sec) and 50 megs/sec for a sata (150mb/sec) drive isnt slow?
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these are burst rates.. not sustained...
the key things for typical drive performance is buffer size, rpm, and seek time... (not necessarily in that order)
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nunne
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Slow Hard Drives makes bush cry :'( |
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| sonix wrote: | my hard drive is a fairly new 250gig maxtor here is what it says in hdparm
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/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 30515/255/63, sectors = 251000193024, start = 0
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and....
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/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1380 MB in 2.00 seconds = 688.38 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 100 MB in 3.00 seconds = 33.32 MB/sec
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These are horrible speeds for an ata 133 hard drive! whats wrong?!
I also have a sata drive. check this out
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/dev/sda:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 14593/255/63, sectors = 120034123776, start = 0
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1552 MB in 2.00 seconds = 775.73 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 158 MB in 3.01 seconds = 52.46 MB/sec
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remeber that the hdd has different write/reads speeds depending if it's in the begging or the end of an physical disc on your hdd.. a diff on 30mb isn't strange at all.. in the end of the disc you might get 60+mb/s.. but in the begging, "just" 30mb/s.. but hey, 30mb/s isn't that slow either...
I don't really know how hdparm works.. maybe it tries to read in the middle of the disc? but maybe not 
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