[ltp] Re: New hard disk for X31?

[Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:43 -0400, Bert Haskins wrote:

> I hope that you have better luck than I have had.
> I bought a Seagate 40G and yes, it is quiet, but is is as slow as a
> slug.
> Slower at 5400 than the 4200 that it replaced.
> I think that it must be retrying on reads but I don't think that I can
> send it
> back for that reason.
> I do wish I could though.

Doesn't seem to be a big problem here.  Sure you don't have a defective
drive or have DMA turned off?

root@eternalsphere:~# hdparm -t -T /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   1676 MB in  2.00 seconds = 836.87 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  116 MB in  3.00 seconds =  38.66 MB/sec

(Thinkpad X31, 1G RAM, 1.6GHz Pentium-M, Seagate 120G 5400 RPM drive, X
and applications running on Ubuntu Breezy)

This drive isn't the fastest in the world, certainly, but it's quite a
bit faster in this machine than the 5400 RPM 40GB drive it replaced.

-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------
*  Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV <rick@rickandpatty.com>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
*  Web: http://www.rickandpatty.com
* Blog: http://shrimpandgrits.rickandpatty.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------