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Date:      Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:35:18 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Regarding IO to disk
Message-ID:  <h3209m$dog$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <995877b70907080042he7aee18m22f9d4a0e4b18bef@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <995877b70907080042he7aee18m22f9d4a0e4b18bef@mail.gmail.com>

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Jawahar Tadipatri wrote:
> Hi Folks,Can anyone please let me know the average/typical time taken for
> completing one IO operation (read and write) to disk?
> More specifically, time taken for writing a string to a file.

Your question is incomplete and cannot be answered correctly.

Declared average latency for desktop hard drives (see 
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_7200_12.pdf) 
is about 4 ms. Real performance depends on about a dozen factors.

See here: http://www.google.com/search?q=hard+drive+performance for more 
information.




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