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Subject: Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk
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On 28/10/2005, at 23:45, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

>> Indeed, 55C is way to high for 24/7 usage, and it might be that the
>> drive is choking on it and barely is able to compensate.
>
> The reads are pretty quick... I'd like to be able to spin it down, but
> ataidle is broken :-(

Ask the maintainer to get it fixed, but be warned experience says it =20
might hose your data...
>> What does SMART say ? any unusual like high correction rates or
>> anything ?
>

(SMART data deleted)

Well except the excessive temperature nothing out of the ordinary...

Now, you say read speed is OK, but write speed isnt, is that on the =20
raw disk device or though the filesystem ?

S=F8ren Schmidt
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