Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how hdparm works? How accurate (in what sense) does > the figure reflect the performance (esp data read-write access rate) of > a tested hard drive?
Not very much accurate I suppose. For me it works more or less like bogomips: just a number you can use to tell if something is terribly wrong. If you want more real-world benchmarking, maybe bonnie would be a better idea. -- Chuan-kai Lin