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Re: am I running sata II ?



Hi,

 Have you tried running:
hdparm -tT /dev/sda
(or whatever the device id is)?

-Jason

Miroslav Maiksnar wrote:
Dne ne 4. září 2005 8:20 Jens Vogel napsal(a):
  
Hello Mike,

michael@etalon.net wrote:
    
Is there a way to tell if my sata II drives are running
at sata II speed? (300 MB/s vs 150 MB/s?)
      
I don't know whether or not there is a way to tell that (maybe with
hdparm?).
But I don't think this matters much anyway.

These days _fast_ harddisks can deliver a sustained data rate of about
60MB/s, maybe with peaks of 80MB/s. So if you want to test the speed of
SATA-II you could try to create a RAID0 array with at least 3 fast
harddisks and see whether its data rate exeeds about 150MB/s.
    
Well, but even with SATA-I you get 3*150MB/s rate, so you won't discover 
anything...

Try looking at your dmesg, there may be info about SATA speed upon controler 
detection.

Mixi



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