Hello Ewan On Dec 3, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Ewan Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > It sounds like your drive write cache is disabled, 7200RPM is 120 > revolutions/sec, and you are getting 7747584 / 1024 / 63.59 = ~119 IO/s > I believe the write cache is enabled by default on SATA drives, which > would explain the difference. You were exactly right. Thank you! A quick "sdparm -S -set=WCE <dev>" and I was back to where I expected. Thanks again, -Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html