From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 21:39:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFF637B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E1843F3F for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5E50A253D5; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:39:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:39:40 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: Josh Paetzel Message-ID: <20030423043940.GR37008@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: <20030422170114.GG37008@ns1.webwarrior.net> <3EA5EC73.1020502@potentialtech.com> <20030423024835.GN37008@ns1.webwarrior.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030423024835.GN37008@ns1.webwarrior.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Performance Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:39:42 -0000 > http://www.dartek.com/printablespecs.cfm?ItemNo=79374 > > This claims my ATA/100 drives are capable of sustained data transfer of 52.5 > Megs/sec. I don't think that's very accurate...most of the benchmarks I've > seen are in the 20-30 Meg/sec range for modern ata/100 and 133 drives. 5 > Megs/sec is NOT normal performance however. These numbers I'm throwing about > all refer to susstained transfer rates on large files. > > Josh Ok, internal tranfer is just from platter to platter inside the drive and not relevent to what I'm looking for. My bad. Josh