At 03:20 PM 02/22/02 -0800, nate wrote: >one of my servers is running 3 x seagate ST39204LW >Ultra160 10,000RPM drives. 2 are in raid0 and 1 is >not. > >this is for a 477MB file. > >non raid: >mail:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=100000 count=5000 >5000+0 records in >5000+0 records out > >real 0m10.035s >user 0m0.020s >sys 0m2.060s
Boy, that sure kills my IDE drives! Here's an old SuSE 6.3 with a 20GB 7200RPM IDE IBM drive: > time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=100000 count=5000 5000+0 records in 5000+0 records out real 2m3.151s user 0m0.710s sys 1m36.770s And here's a new Sid system with a 60GB 7200 IBM drive. $ time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=100000 count=5000 5000+0 records in 5000+0 records out real 1m9.297s user 0m0.190s sys 0m52.100s -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
