Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, freebsd@atipa.com, toor@dyson.iquest.net, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, ggm@connect.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) Message-ID: <199708080656.BAA00553@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199708080650.IAA01405@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Aug 8, 97 08:50:15 am"
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> In reply to Tom who wrote: > > > > > > dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k > > > > 1600+0 records in > > > > 1600+0 records out > > > > 104857600 bytes transferred in 27.336979 secs (3835742 bytes/sec) > > > > Hehe, I can do the above dd at 8738133 bytes/sec, on a NCR 810 > > (narrow!), with a Seagate Barracuda. Try to find a IDE drive that can do > > that. This is only a P120. > > Don't get exicited yet :) I can do that like this: > > dd if=/dev/rwd0 of=/dev/null count=1600 bs=64k > 1600+0 records in > 1600+0 records out > 104857600 bytes transferred in 11.357939 secs (9232097 bytes/sec) > > So come again :) > Yep, the 9+MB/sec that I quoted was also for my 4GB Caviar. I guess that it could have been confusing since the WD Enterprise (SCSI) is also available in 4GB. These EIDEs even though middle/low end, actually perform pretty well. Wouldn't want to run a full feed newserver on them though :-). John
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