Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.
Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin:
>Huh? Well compared to SSD they are dog slow with small size random
>read/write operations - typical refered to as IOPS - but I cannot
>confirm that they are slower than PATA drives. They might not be that
>much faster, but thats IMHO more a question of the physical attributes
>of their mechanics.
I agree. That's what I want to solve. So for farther discussion let's
just have as initial data: SATA HDD lacks performance on a system and
we are looking for solutions. - Just to avoid the comparison of the
standards.
>As far as I have seen and measured, SATA drivers in the kernel operate
>almost at hardware speeds. libata is a quite mature and performant
>driver framewark as far as I have seen.
How do measure? W/ hdparm?
>That said there might be exceptions with certain boards or
>controllers. So if SATA is measurably slower on your machine than PATA
>it might be an idea to replace the SATA controller or the board with
>something sensible.
It is not the case for now - what I said was long ago and I have no
more those machines. Why I said that is just to share my experience w/
S/P -ATA HDDs performance in Linux. And that's it.
>Exactly. Please start with supplying the information I requested in
>the other mail.
OK. Please check it.
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