Hard Drive Speed
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Nov 1 00:37:31 UTC 2007
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.
>
> It's running with DMA4, AHCI, etc.
>
> The rest is an ASUS MB with a Core 2 Duo 6400 @ 2.4 Mhz & 2GB Ram @ 800Mhz.
>
> Are there any setting from the standard that by help?
>
> here's the hdparm output
>
> [root at localhost ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
> Timing cached reads: 8608 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4313.28 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 202 MB in 3.02 seconds = 66.79 MB/sec
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