On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:30:53PM +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> SATA-I gives 150 MB/s, SATA-II gives 300 MB/s, PATA 133 MB/s.
>
How does one measure the speeds of these drives? For the PATA drives, I
used hdparm -tT /dev/hda to get the numbers. The sdparm utility does
not seem to have a testing mode.
Here are the details of my drive:
# sdparm --inquiry /dev/sda
/dev/sda: ATA ST3250310AS 3.AA
Device identification VPD page:
Addressed logical unit:
designator type: vendor specific [0x0], code set: ASCII
00 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 39 52 59 30 9RY0
10 33 36 59 57 36YW
designator type: T10 vendor identification, code set: ASCII
vendor id: ATA
vendor specific: ST3250310AS 9RY036YW
I tried the hdparm on my sata disk and got these figures.
# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1498 MB in 2.00 seconds = 749.55 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 244 MB in 3.01 seconds = 81.06 MB/sec
Regards,
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