Once upon a time, Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx> said: > To test my hard disk performance I have run Kdiskmark and used > the Real World Performance Profile. For its sequential read > performance it is showing around 156 MB/s on my ST3000DM007-1WY1 > (3TB Seagate Barracuda), which given that device support 1/3/6 Gb/s > I/O speeds and the device is plugged into a 6Mb/s Sata port on the > motherboard, is very poor performance. That's a misunderstanding of how things work. The SATA port speed is just an upper-bound on transfer, but has nothing to do with how fast a device can actually read data (similar to having a 1G network card and even Internet service doesn't mean sites will serve data to you at 1G). Traditional spinning hard drives typically do top out in the neighborhood of 150 MB/s... and in fact, the official spec from Seagate for that drive is an average read rate of 156 MB/s. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue