Re: Serial ATA and UDMA

From: Jonathan Rawle (jr36_at_leicester.ac.uk)
Date: 06/30/04

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    James Wilkinson wrote:

    > Perhaps more to the point, you'll be doing extremely well to get more
    > than 60-70 MB/s out of the current generation of hard drives. IIRC, a
    > number of manufacturers are still on ATA100 simply due to this
    > limitation.

    > My advice? If you've got decent hard drive performance, be happy. If
    > not, something else is wrong.
    >

    If 54 MB/s decent performance? (Output from hdparm -t)

    I realise the best way to increase performance is to have more than one
    drive, even without RAID. I briefly had my home partition on a different
    drive, and the system was noticeably faster. However, my main aim is to
    make my system as quiet as possible, so two drives isn't the best solution!

    I was just curious as to why the log showed those messages about ATA/133!

    Jonathan 

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