Tuning HD's
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Dec 19 23:42:59 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 15:09, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
> > One thing that you may want to do is measure the speed of different bits of
> > the disk (split it into a load of partitions and measure the I/O rate of each,
> > you'll find they vary)
> >
>
> That seems a bit time consuming, but since I'm out of class for break I
> could give it a try, but how about being more specific? I'm not
> comfortable just trying things in the hdparm man page since a lot of the
> stuff is a little over my head in terms of what I know about newer
> hardware. I've really gotta study up on this stuff again.
I don't think he's talking about hdparm here; he's talking about the
fact that different sections of the disk have different performance
characteristics. Try it as a secondary drive with the OS on another and
split your drive up into, say, 1GB partitions and run Bonnie++ or
another disk performance tool on each of them. With 120GB, you'd
probably want to script it for sanity :)
Wil
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