Re: DD command
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:53:44PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
> >On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote:
> >
> >>How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd?
> >
> >Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to
> >sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53 MiB/s) = 25 minutes.
> >
> I dont get it. I've been getting 3.3 MiB/s on my machine. And this has
> some pretty good specs because we will use this as a production machine.
>
What does hdparm give as timing info for the drive? You should minimize
other drive activity while its testing.
Doug.
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