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Re: Experience with 18G IDE HD



On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Eli Marmor wrote:


hdparm -t is hardly a real life testing utility.

--Ariel
> Nimrod Mesika wrote:
> 
> > As for speed... hdparm -t /dev/hde gives me about 22MB/sec with UDMA66
> > enabled (this is a cheap 5400 rpm drive). When disabled, speed drops to
> > about 10MB/sec. Note that I have seen UDMA33 drives that go as high as
> > 15MB/sec. Go figure...
> 
> 22MB/s ???Amazing!  Did anybody else gain similar results?
> And what are the average results with SCSI disks? Please share your
> experience. I'm going to spend much money, and want to know in
> advance. BTW: Does anybody use Linux with Netfinity 3000?Is it
> recommended?Do you have any tip?  Are the I/O performance
> (especially the disk) better than a simple desktop, or it is only a
> myth?
> 
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> Eli Marmor
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