On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:53:44PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > >On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote: > > > >>How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > > >Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to > >sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53 MiB/s) = 25 minutes. > > > I dont get it. I've been getting 3.3 MiB/s on my machine. And this has > some pretty good specs because we will use this as a production machine. >
What does hdparm give as timing info for the drive? You should minimize other drive activity while its testing. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
