Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

[Bruno Buys <brunobuys@gmail.com>]

Thomas Weinbrenner wrote:

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> > How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here?
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> > frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
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> > /dev/sda:
> > Timing cached reads:   2368 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec
> > Timing buffered disk reads:  170 MB in  3.01 seconds =  56.56 MB/sec
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> > Does anybody have a clue?
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> What drive speed did you expect? 
> I think 56 MB/s looks good.
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How do I know this for sure? I expected sata disks to outperform ide's.