Archive for June, 2010

SATA > IDE

Turns out sata is 4x faster than ide.

hdparam -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads:   80 MB in  3.07 seconds =  26.06 MB/sec

hdparam -t /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb: Timing buffered disk reads:  314 MB in  3.00 seconds = 104.53 MB/sec

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