[Novalug] SATA performance

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Mon Mar 19 08:35:22 EDT 2007


You can use

hdparm -Tt /dev/<drive>

(ie. <drive> = sda)

for testing purposes.

Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
> Is there any way to get a rough benchmark for performance
> with a drive?  I'm looking to see if the one I have is
> operating correctly and the operation just takes a long
> time or if I have configuration issues of some sort
> (including incompatibility).
> 
> When I use tar to un-tar a file, the drive activity light
> does some blinking but it isn't on constantly and the
> untarring process takes a _long_ time.  I've aborted the
> process after a day or so.  I'm not using -xvf just -xf
> (the v option lists out the names of the files as it's
> untarring).  There are lots and lots (thousands?) of
> small files in a few directories (less than a dozen?).
> 



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