Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 08:05:57 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Playing with SATA NCQ |
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On Sun, May 29 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Michael Thonke wrote: > >Well the subjective feeling is great through! What I noticed is a > >improvement on rsync (goes slighty faster drive to drive). > >The noise decrease now it only make noise on very heavy IO reads and > >writes. > > > It might be as simple as... NCQ means the drive is doing more work. > More work means more noise.
You can argue both ways :-). Usually more noise means more seeks and thus less work done.
-- Jens Axboe
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