[ltp] hdparm scores 38.25 MB/sec on my T40 running SUSE 10.1 RC3

[James PEARSON]

Hello all,

Running "hdparm" scores 38.25 MB/sec on my T40 (OS is SUSE 10.1 RC3)
Is this good, bad or average ?

How much have the improvements in hard drive technology
(ATA-6 => SATA II, etc.) affected hard drive performance?

Are the SATA drives on the new Thinkpads faster? Is so how much?

Note : Below are my "hdparm results" right after I booted my T40
Thinkpad which is running SUSE 10.1 RC3.  I was hoping that some of you
would be so kind as to post their hdparm scores along with their
machine types, OS and filesystem.

BTW, my hard drive is a Hitachi
Travelstar 7K60 (Disque dur 2.5'' 60Go - 7200 RPM - UDMA100 - cache 8Mo
(ref : HTS726060M9AT00)) and the filesystem is XFS

################## START ##################
linux-hc4q:~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   1444 MB in  2.00 seconds = 721.95 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  116 MB in  3.03 seconds =  38.25 MB/sec


linux-hc4q:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

 Model=HTS726060M9AT00, FwRev=MH4OA68A, SerialNo=MRH403M4GNYEZB
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7877kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=112096627
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:  ATA/ATAPI-2
ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6

 * signifies the current active mode


linux-hc4q:~ # hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 1024 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0
################## END ##################


TIA James