Re: Anyone here made a "TV computer"?

[Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>]

On Apr 13, 2011, at 16:20, Phil Endecott wrote:

> Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah <at> jeremiahfoster.com> writes:

[...]

>> Here is some data about disk reads: 
>> 
>> /dev/sda:
>> Timing cached reads:   476 MB in  2.00 seconds = 237.74 MB/sec
>> Timing buffered disk reads:   66 MB in  3.03 seconds =  21.80 MB/sec
> 
> I recognise that as hdparm output, but on what device exactly?

That appears to be the SanDisk 8 gig SSD;

# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/  
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan  1  1970 usb-SanDisk_SSD_P4_8GB_000000000033-0:0 -> ../../sda

> On my TS-119 (Marvell processor) with a SATA SSD, I get:
> 
> /dev/sda:
> Timing cached reads:   634 MB in  2.00 seconds = 316.54 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:  404 MB in  3.01 seconds = 134.00 MB/sec

Ah. Quite a bit better. 

Regards,

Jeremiah