Test your hard drive

[dalek]

You can test you drive's overall system performance by going into a console and typing in this command:

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hdparm -Tt /dev/hdX
Replace the 'X' with a or b depending on which you want to test.

Post your results here.

Mine is:

[root@smoker dale]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   1436 MB in  2.00 seconds = 718.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   92 MB in  3.04 seconds =  30.26 MB/sec
[root@smoker dale]#
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That's straight out of the box.  They can be tweaked to.  I'll post that later.

What do you get?

     

[anti_microsoft]

Man mine is slooooow.

/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in 1.17 seconds=109.40 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 6.37 seconds=10.05 MB/sec


Man that is lousy!

[dalek]

What kind of turtle, I mean hard drive, do you have in there?   :lol:

What a bummer.

       

[Deepthi]

hi ............i tried that command. the results are as follows

bash: hdparm: command not found

what's the interpretation???

[dalek]

It appears to not be installed.  What distro are you using?  I have never seen that before.  Mine is installed by default in Mandrake 9.1.  I will check Gentoo the next time I'm booted into it.

Look on the CDs you installed from, it may be in there.

Strange

 :?    

[anti_microsoft]

Hello all,

Dalek I have a quantum bigfoot 8.0 gig. And you are right it is a turtle. It came out of my mothers compaq, she wanted something bigger so I said I will take the bigfoot. I would imagine it might have something to do with my settings or something.

Oh well I guess it works.  :?

[dalek]

Link

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue79/punk.html

Word of warning.  Most new drives can handle those settings.  Some drives can not though.  Be careful what you change.  You can lose your data or mess up your drive.

Hope that helps though.  may turn that turtle into a 'hare'.    :lol:  :lol:

Later

       

[anti_microsoft]

Hello

Thanks for the link but it did not work for me . Here are the results after the tweaks:

bash-2.05b# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
 
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.13 seconds =113.27 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  6.56 seconds =  9.76 MB/sec


Still really slow. Well thanks for trying to help my turtle.

[dalek]

May be the fastest it can go.  May be a mobo or hard drive or perhaps a yuky cable.  

Maybe you can do like me, build your own from scratch.  You know what you are getting then.

Later

       

[neo]

Hi Deepthi
the reason that ur system could not fing hdparm command is that it is in the directory /sbin and if u r not usin root as ur login then u may not find it. This is beacause in user accounts /sbin is not in the search directory. Try giving the whole command or login from root. Donot even take root as 'su' even then ull be needing to give the whole command

[jayakrishnan]

/dev/hda:

Timing buffer-cache reads : 128 MB in 1.22 seconds = 105.03 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  64  MB in 2.90 seconds = 22.04 MB/sec

[neo]

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.30 seconds =426.67 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.32 seconds = 27.59 MB/sec

[po_white_trash]

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.31 seconds = 97.71 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.82 seconds = 35.16 MB/se

[dalek]

I got a new Western Digital 80GB hard drive.  Here is the new readings:

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bash-2.05b# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   1060 MB in  2.01 seconds = 528.23 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  130 MB in  3.03 seconds =  42.88 MB/sec
bash-2.05b#
Not to bad.  I guess the Western Digital is faster.

Later

       

[Ricky]

Being a 80 gb disk.. it is fast enough...