Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:55:01 -0800 (PST) | From | Wayne Whitney <> | Subject | Re: IDE Harddrive Performance |
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Jim and Adam,
I recommend that you check out the smartsuite package described in http://www.linux-ide.org/smart.html. It showed me that when a Maxtor drive I recently purchased dropped from 40MB/sec to 1MB/sec throughput, it was having an incredible number of "Hardware ECC Recovered" (SMART attribute 195) events. I guess some bit chunk of the magnetic media had failed, in a way that still allowed the drive to recover all the data, but so that the overhead of the requisite ECC was killing the throughput. I ended up returning it for a replacement.
Cheers, Wayne
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