[TriLUG] Interested in SATA HD Timings

[Sam Kalat]

I get 44-47 MB/sec on either of two SATA drives in an Athlon 64 3200+.


On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:46:20 -0500, Scott Chilcote
<scottchilcote at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> While I realize that hdparm -t is not a perfect test of hard drive
> performance, I'm interested in seeing what people are getting for SATA
> drives as compared to other IDE and SCSI drives.
> 
> I'm currently using an IDE Ultra ATA/100 7500 RPM hard drive, and two
> SCSI Ultra 160 10,000 RPM drives on an Athlon XP 2100 system at home.
> hdparm -t reports about 40 MB/s on the IDE, and about 80 MB/s on the
> SCSI drives.
> 
> I realize that a faster machine will get faster read times.  I tried
> timing a nearly identical ATA/100 drive on a Xeon 2.2 GHz system, and it
> reported 50 MB/s.  This machine also had an  older IDE Ultra ATA/66 5400
> RPM drive, and it reported 20 MB/s.
> 
> So, given that these comparisons are imperfect, would anyone be willing
> to share what timings their SATA drives are reporting?  If you have a
> substantially faster or slower processor than those I've listed, it
> would be useful to know.
> 
> Before I get a half dozen replies mentioning Tom's Hardware, yes, I plan
> to read their site (among others) before shelling out for new drives.  I
> find other users' experiences to be at least as valuable though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> Scott C.
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