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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 10:10:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2Pc=O-FyGcDf1=+Qi-Lb3T1Mx9ceKSXZqNLbFURn11Etw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5021CC94.3050701@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> 4 or 5 hours huh.  I guess drives are a lot faster now.  Back in the
> late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb
> drives.  Ooops, my ages is showing again.  lol

I recently found a box of hard drives in my house and have been using
ddrescue to pull the data off of them. These drives were not that old,
around 1gb each. Desktop drives. I was amazed at how slow they were
relative to today's drives... 2MB/sec? 5MB/sec? My internet connection
is faster than that now.

Also, found a dead 5.25" Quantum hard drive... forgot how huge those
are. Weighed a ton and it was built like a tank.

Your new drive will probably go around 100-150MB/sec or so on
sequential writes. So you can do the math and figure out how many
hours that will take.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-08 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-05 12:45 [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive Dale
2012-08-05 12:53 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-05 16:05 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-05 20:02 ` victor romanchuk
2012-08-06  9:42 ` Dale
2012-08-06  9:49   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-08-06 10:14     ` Dale
2012-08-06 10:48       ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-08-06 12:17         ` Mick
2012-08-06  9:57   ` Mick
2012-08-06 10:25     ` Dale
2012-08-06 11:01   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-06 11:25     ` Dale
2012-08-06 11:51       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-06 11:58       ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-06 12:01       ` Mick
2012-08-06 15:17 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-07 22:26   ` Dale
2012-08-07 22:39     ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-07 23:05       ` Dale
2012-08-08  0:31         ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-07 23:06       ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-08  0:32         ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-08  7:06           ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-07 23:07     ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-08  2:19       ` Dale
2012-08-08  3:55         ` William Kenworthy
2012-08-08  4:18           ` Dale
2012-08-08  5:42             ` William Kenworthy
2012-08-08  6:24               ` Dale
2012-08-08  4:02         ` Adam Carter
2012-08-08  4:16           ` William Kenworthy
2012-08-08  4:21             ` Adam Carter
2012-08-08 12:10               ` Mick
2012-08-08 12:53                 ` Dale
2012-08-10 13:40                   ` Mick
2012-08-08 15:10         ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-08-08 15:39           ` Dale
2012-08-09 13:30         ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-09 13:53           ` Dale
2012-08-09 15:29             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-08 14:48   ` Ricardo Jesus
2012-08-08 18:02 ` Dale
2012-08-08 18:25   ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-08 22:09     ` Dale
2012-08-09  3:22       ` Dale
2012-08-09  6:13         ` Yohan Pereira
2012-08-09  6:31           ` Dale
2012-08-09  8:46         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-09  9:35           ` Dale
2012-08-09 10:58             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-09 12:02               ` Dale
2012-08-10  8:53                 ` Dale

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