Quoting Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Those numbers seem about right. The three disks in my PC at work show: > > sda: Samsung SpinPoint SP0411C 40GB SATA/150 7200RPM 2MB HDD > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2920 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1460.18 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 3.02 seconds = 49.72 MB/sec Hmm, I tried using hdparm-9.3 (as opposed to the default 6.6) and the cached reads dropped to short of 700. The buffered numbers remained though. - Peder _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
