[ltp] Thinkpad T43 7200rpm hard drive performance?

[Gareth Sherwood]

On Monday 19 June 2006 09:05 am, Jiang Qian wrote:

> As a matter of comparison, I have a T43 with a Hitachi travelstar
> 7200rpm 60GB 7k60(model number HTS726060M9AT00), 1.86 Pentium M 1G ram.
> Now due to the infamous PATA to SATA bridge my hard drive shows up as
> SATA drive and has to undergo some fiddling to get to work. A
> consequence is that I have this perennial fear that I'm not squeezing
> the maximum out of this drive. Another consequence is that not all hard
> drive is compatible with my T43
> http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_non-ThinkPad_hard_disks
> So I'm posting my test result to serve two purpose:
> 1) To compare others out there with T43(p) and same hard drive to see if
> anyone get better number and if so what I can do to improve performance.
> 2) To see whether anyone has a different hard drive working under T43
> that has better performance.
> So thank in advance for all the else with their results, here's the
> numbers:
> root@laptop:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing cached reads:   3640 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1820.00 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  114 MB in  3.02 seconds =  37.75 MB/sec
>
Hi Jiang,
Ive also got a T43 with the HTS541060G9ATA,  512RAM

# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

 /dev/sda:
Timing cached reads:   3116 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1559.73 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  108 MB in  3.02 seconds =  35.77 MB/sec

which I guess doesn't help much except for comparison.

I'm running Slack10.2 and trying to get it all setup nicely, any ideas other 
than elimination via ps ax how I can find out what is polling my drive every 
coupla seconds.

TIA 
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