Re: WD-800JB drive speed check

From: Tim McCoy (tmccoy_at_hotPOP.com)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:41:25 +1100

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:26:48 +0000, Luca Pireddu wrote:

> Chris Cox wrote:
>
>> Chiefy wrote:
>>> Drive WD800JB-00FMA0 (80GB 8MB cache) + 80 cable
>>> IDE Bus: VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC
>>>
>>> Played with hdparm a little and can get no faster than the following:
>>> /dev/hda:
>>> Timing buffer-cache reads: 1076 MB in 2.00 seconds = 538.00 MB/sec
>>> Timing buffered disk reads: 162 MB in 3.02 seconds = 53.64 MB/sec
>>>
>>> Are the above good speeds for that drive?
>>
>> Yes... quite good.
>
> Seems really good to me. I have a WD800JB-00CRA10 on an nForce3 chipset and I
> get
> Timing buffered disk reads: 140 MB in 3.01 seconds = 46.57 MB/sec
>
> Luca

I basically have the same drive (on Via KT333 chipset, 2.6.8.1 kernel):

hackbox:/home/tmccoy# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads: 1172 MB in 2.00 seconds = 585.21 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 144 MB in 3.01 seconds = 47.80 MB/sec

Cheers

Tim 

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