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On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 04:21:45 AM Dale wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> >>> root@fireball / # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb |
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> >>> |
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> >>> /dev/sdb: |
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> >>> Timing cached reads: 6604 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3303.39 MB/sec |
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> >>> Timing buffered disk reads: 542 MB in 3.01 seconds = 180.33 MB/sec |
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> >>> root@fireball / # |
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> >> Try a real life example like dd. I have seen the above mentioned speed |
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> >> on disks with a file system on it which does limit the speed anyway. |
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> > +1 |
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> I watched the dd process when I was erasing the old drive. I got about |
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> the same results. It started out a little over 200 and went as low as |
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> 170 or so close to the end. On average, about what hdparm shows. Close |
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> enough it seems. ;-) |
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Yep, but do the same after adding a filesystem to the mix? |
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Eg. mount it somewhere, then dd to a file on that drive. |
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