Re: Seril ATA. Anyone using the new Hard Drives?

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jurgen Kramer wrote:

> I have got similar results:
>
> hdparm -tT /dev/hde
>
> /dev/hde:
> Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.13 seconds =984.62 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.15 seconds = 55.65 MB/sec
>
> This is with (probably) the same 120GB Seagate SATA drive. I doubt if
> the first value is accurate though. It surpasses the maximum SATA speed
> by a long shot..;-)
>  
That'll be because the buffer cache resides in memory and not on disk 
then :-)    You have an 800MHz frontsize bus I would imagine.

jch