optimizing fujitsu hard drive?
Anyone know how to speed up this hard drive:
FUJITSU MPG3204AT E, ATA DISK drive
?
I'm getting 14.78 MB/sec, as opposed to twentysomething with my
(noisy, dying) Western Digital 10GB drive (WDC WD102BA).
It's a quiet drive, so I don't want to complain too much. I'd rather
have slow and quiet than fast and noisy. But, maybe I'm doing
something wrong. The Fujitsu is AFAIK a more recent model than the
Western Digital. hdparm stuff follows.
-chris
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13:33:05</var/log>$ hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 2491/255/63, sectors = 40031712, start = 0
13:33:31</var/log>$ hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.19 seconds =107.56 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.33 seconds = 14.78 MB/sec
13:34:36</var/log>$ cat /etc/init.d/hdparm
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/hdparm -S 25 /dev/hda
/sbin/hdparm -Y /dev/hdb
/sbin/hdparm -k -c 3 -m 16 -d 1 /dev/hda
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