From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Gop8u-0001hB-WC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:40:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kARMbqHM004484; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:37:52 GMT Received: from hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be (hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kARMZgB0001283 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:35:42 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 82343D4020 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:35:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.2.28] (d51522342.access.telenet.be [81.82.35.66]) by hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6670FD4019 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:35:42 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <456B685B.5060005@sin.khk.be> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:36:11 +0100 From: Ken Gypen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061109) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now... References: <4569A5ED.5000301@comcast.net> <7573e9640611261143k3c7eeb47s6f913762bc57c84d@mail.gmail.com> <456A499B.4060108@comcast.net> <7573e9640611270901t1c347c2xd6eaaf6360392bd7@mail.gmail.com> <456B65E8.1010604@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <456B65E8.1010604@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3fa65c43-08c7-4feb-8af0-0efa5faef264 X-Archives-Hash: 92c3238a6ad9924e86e3e64b8e43c1ca > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list