Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...

[Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>]

Ken Gypen wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 

Yeah - when doing this sort of thing ensure you are using files at least 
2x(size of RAM) - otherwise you can end up just measuring memory access 
speed.

Cheers

Mark

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