On Freitag 28 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:29:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: > > > > > > Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? > > > > % whatis hdparm > > hdparm (8) - get/set SATA/ATA device parameters > > > > SATA is still ATA, using the same basic command set but over a different > > wire. > > Yes, hdparm will work with my drive, but the question is would I have a > benefit using it? Other than what Paul said, is there another benefit e.g. > speed wise that I could derive from using hdparm
no > or is the kernel on its > own enough to optimise the performance of the drive? yes
