Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 09 Oct 2000 10:02:40 +0200 | From | blizbor <> |
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Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: > > The fastest ATA drives out that are not public yet are in 39-42mB/s. > Also SCSI can not sustain rates much better than maybe 60mB/s.
Andre, how are you benchmarking drives ?
In context you wrote, I've got rather curious results (maybe due to daulty measurement routines in tar). I've made tar clvf /dev/null --totals and got as follows:
for ReiserFS: 53MB/s for ext2fs 27-28 MB/s
Hardware used: ASUS P2B, 80MB RAM, P III 500MHz, ASUS PCI Ultra66C card (based on CMD 648U) and 15GB WD153BA 7200rpm drive.
Have you any idea did such results are really possible ? Could you sugest me better methods ?
Another question: looking through ide driver code I've found that there exists bad drive list with comment saying that it's updated when somebody emails bad words about drive. What you think about preparing test utility and let people around the world check and fill database of drives real "capabilities". This way list will be almost completed now, not after few years.
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