On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dale wrote:
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> Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes,
> what is the best test of a hard drive's speed?
>
By running a benchmar
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dale wrote:
Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes,
what is the best test of a hard drive's speed?
By running a benchmark tool that does exactly this. IOzone is a nice one:
http://www.iozone.o
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Dale wrote:
>>> Other than copying a file and using time to measure how long it takes,
>>> what is the best test of a hard drive's speed?
>>
>> By running a benchmark tool that does exactly this. IOzone is a nice one:
>>
>> http://www.iozone.org
>>
>> It's in po
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/22/2011 09:50 AM, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote:
[...]
And I thought there was something weird with me on this one. o_O I did
switch it back to AHCI after I got done booting the CD thingy. I
really
can't tell any differ
On 01/22/2011 09:50 AM, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote:
[...]
And I thought there was something weird with me on this one. o_O I did
switch it back to AHCI after I got done booting the CD thingy. I really
can't tell any difference in speed between the tw
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
My notebook works like that too.
Hard disk works fine when everything is set to AHCI, but then the
system won't
boot from CD. So I enabled the IDE driver and the IDE driver for
CD-ROMs.
My take on this is that
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM, walt wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
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>> I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called "SATA Configuration"
>>
>> BIOS then gives me another choice "Configure SATA as"
>
> What was that programmer smoking? Some of the equipment I use at wor
On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called "SATA Configuration"
BIOS then gives me another choice "Configure SATA as"
What was that programmer smoking? Some of the equipment I use at work
offers choices that are that dumb, and the error messag
On 01/22/2011 12:31 AM, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
My notebook works like that too.
Hard disk works fine when everything is set to AHCI, but then the
system won't
boot from CD. So I enabled the IDE driver and the IDE driver for CD-ROMs.
My take on this is that Dell had a vast stock of ch
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