On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:51:04PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > # hdparm -t /dev/hda > don't use hdparm! > > it's very unreliable for measuring performance; please use something > like tiobench (tiobench.sf.net) Its not that unreliable for measuring streaming I/O. Those numbers match other reports I've seen from the old magicdev crap when there was a cdrom as the slave and it polled