On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:47:44AM -0800, nate wrote: > Robert Land said: > > Do people on this list use these ancient udma2 hdd's? > > > > I did a short test using "hdparm -t /dev/hda" and although > > I have everything turned on that sounds like 'fast' the > > test only showed ~9 MB/s ! > > bonnie++ is a much closer to real world test then hdparm, > I reccomend using it. Not sure why so many people use hdparm > to test performance. Lower level performance doesn't mean a whole > lot, filesystems can dramatically affect performance. I would > expect your results to get lower, 9MB/s sounds very very fast > for a UDMA2 disk.
Thank you very much for this information. I had no idea of bonnie++ - apt-cache search helped me to find it - it's even available for my old potato system. Relating to the windows program I mentioned - I have to be careful believing the results when not knowing how these bench programs work. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
