Hard Drive Speed

[John Summerfield]

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.


Mainframes _do_ do 3 Gbytes/sec, and more;-)



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