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From: Ken Gypen <glider@sin.khk.be>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:36:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456B685B.5060005@sin.khk.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456B65E8.1010604@comcast.net>


> I would assume that the two benchmark programs I am using to measure the
> drive performance under windows go through windows, and thus the NTFS
> interface.  They are Dr. Hardware and FreshDiagnose.  The second one
> showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB
> per second...  Though the same one reported a read speed of about 900+
> MB per second for my USB drive (not really possible, since the maximum
> speed for USB 2.0 is about 480 MB / second).
Hi Chris,

A more realistic speed for a HD is about 60-90MB/second... It's hardware 
limited. So your values are quite off, regardless of the OS and the 
filesystem.

Greets Glider
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-27 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-26 14:34 [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now Chris Walters
2006-11-26 16:47 ` Aniruddha
2006-11-27  2:01   ` Chris Walters
2006-11-26 19:43 ` Richard Fish
2006-11-27  2:12   ` Chris Walters
2006-11-27 17:01     ` Richard Fish
2006-11-27 22:25       ` Chris Walters
2006-11-27 22:36         ` Ken Gypen [this message]
2006-11-27 22:51           ` Mark Kirkwood
2006-11-28  1:00         ` Richard Fish
2006-11-28  4:08           ` Chris Walters

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