From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org)
	by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-107022-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>)
	id 1NeCRT-0007VO-9c
	for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:05:11 +0000
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64E17E0A9B
	for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sun,  7 Feb 2010 19:05:10 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mail-fx0-f214.google.com (mail-fx0-f214.google.com [209.85.220.214])
	by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505BFE096A
	for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun,  7 Feb 2010 18:19:46 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so1847580fxm.38
        for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:19:45 -0800 (PST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=googlemail.com; s=gamma;
        h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date
         :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type
         :content-transfer-encoding:message-id;
        bh=WmDGNg9ug2w+lawlX5BX2iRRuAAF30JSmWwe1etp7WI=;
        b=wI7qFLR+qm1+VPXQHtdXf/23uz4zKqz38oq0eZWcd1tK/I3eafJDcZAal9eua/J1ow
         0R+g1qbF4KC9F2NfTCPyf7rH5dh9cv2QVz6Mp0SLgoAlpZYvR7w3O0OnzrGa+95VztGS
         MjbJrTQly0QHzfmN1q7aArFQYkLday6woKi9E=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=googlemail.com; s=gamma;
        h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version
         :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id;
        b=M5/+H4SoXN0SLV6QNJZjX3clELR9g9hN3GCWk50Dsy891x7OoP9bKrI0upM8jnvIDd
         deTEkkE+beNhzTKrATWF7RlP8eF8Llnu17uHDKYd6n+0X0ePEk3PzCPTXJvc7E2KOZFw
         ZkAS14kBvCoRak29sTFwv9xBCjJgYIaMnzRZw=
Received: by 10.102.211.9 with SMTP id j9mr3674890mug.130.1265566785711;
        Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:19:45 -0800 (PST)
Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g1sm17223273muf.7.2010.02.07.10.19.44
        (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
        Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:19:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:19:38 +0100
User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.3.95; x86_64; ; )
References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <201002072030.43425.b3nder@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <201002072030.43425.b3nder@yandex.ru>
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain;
  charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <201002071919.38799.volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
X-Archives-Salt: 9ae9c502-f00d-4dea-9da0-1bcfe57cb0db
X-Archives-Hash: e956994c15a734096b6fb3c89b1a4e6e

On Sonntag 07 Februar 2010, Alexander wrote:
> On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote:
> >    Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive
> > 
> > light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things
> > to complete the data is there but I haven't tested it extensively.
> > 
> >    Is this a bad drive or am I somehow using it incorrectly?
> 
> Is there any related info in dmesg?

or maybe there is too much cached and seeking is not the drives strong point 
...