Re: Hard Drive Speed

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Todd Simi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I know this may be a silly question since it probably a hardware
>>> limitation,
>>> but I'm running F7 and would like to know what I can do to increase
>>> the hard
>>> drive seek time, if anything.
>>>
>>> I have a pretty new SATA drive at 3GB/sec and it seems to have to
>>> seek longer
>>> than I'd expect.
>>
>> FWIW, the SATA spec is 3Gbits/sec and I believe that hdparm is reporting
>> MBytes/sec.
> 
> You're right, of course, but the data coming off the surface still isn't
> going to do it at 3 Bits/sec.

For sure....just wanted to make certain the OP was comparing apples to apples.

> Mainframes _do_ do 3 Gbytes/sec, and more;-)

Sure do...  Sometimes wish I had one of those...but then again not sure I
could afford the electric bill.