mikpolniak wrote: > > Last week after i installed potato on a new system i ran > hdparm to test the new ibm ata66 drive and it showed reads of > 32mb/sec. Since then the only changes i've made have been > apt-get installs which have increased my disk usage to 895mb. > Now hdparm consistently tests reads at around 28-29 mb/sec. > Does 10% degradation in ata66 performance from brand new to > one weeks use seem within the parameters of hdparm or is there > another explanation. Not concerned about this, just curious and > maybe there are some hardware issues i should be aware of.
disk speed can vary widely depending on where on the physical disk you are reading from. on the systems that i run ide with i never use hdparm (out of fears of killing my poor drives) linux by default seems to run them quite well, also i don't run benchmarks.. if the drive isn't fast enough i get a faster drive (Ultra160 SCSI) .. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
