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Re: new harddrive degraded speed

From brainfart@posteo.net
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: new harddrive degraded speed
Date 2021-01-21 03:20 +0100
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On 2021-01-20 07:26 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> brainfart@posteo.net wrote:
>> 
>> 6tb drive at 3.0 gbs
>>  root@hc4:~# hdparm -t /dev/sda
>> 
>> /dev/sda:
>>  Timing buffered disk reads: 406 MB in  3.01 seconds = 134.83 MB/sec
>> 
>> 
>> 2tb drive at 6.0 gbs
>> root@hc4:~# hdparm -t /dev/sdb
>> 
>> /dev/sdb:
>>  Timing buffered disk reads: 436 MB in  3.00 seconds = 145.27 MB/sec
> 
> Both of these are substantially under 3Gb/s. The fact is, not
> only do different spinning disks read and write data at
> different rates, the rates change across the same disk.
> 
> For what it's worth, the WD Red 6TB disk you've got is a
> notoriously slow drive, for a CMR. It has a fairly high latency
> and runs at 5700RPM. It's entirely likely that your 2TB disk is
> actually faster.
> 
> You're not likely to notice the 10MB/s difference in actual
> usage, though. It will be dominated by seek times for
> interactive usage, and humans are bad at paying attention to
> longer times without a clock in front of them.
> 
> -dsr-

it's just curiosity
i haven't perused kernel code in many years
being retired i guess i have the time to scratch an itch :)
thanks

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new harddrive degraded speed brainfart@posteo.net - 2021-01-21 00:30 +0100
  Re: new harddrive degraded speed deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 01:20 +0100
    Re: new harddrive degraded speed brainfart@posteo.net - 2021-01-21 01:40 +0100
      Re: new harddrive degraded speed "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 19:00 +0100
  Re: new harddrive degraded speed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-21 01:40 +0100
  Re: new harddrive degraded speed Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-21 01:50 +0100
    Re: new harddrive degraded speed brainfart@posteo.net - 2021-01-21 02:20 +0100
      Re: new harddrive degraded speed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-21 02:30 +0100
        Re: new harddrive degraded speed brainfart@posteo.net - 2021-01-21 03:20 +0100
  Re: new harddrive degraded speed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-21 06:50 +0100
    Re: new harddrive degraded speed Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2021-01-21 17:40 +0100
      Re: new harddrive degraded speed Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-21 18:10 +0100
        Re: new harddrive degraded speed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 19:50 +0100
          Re: new harddrive degraded speed brainfart@posteo.net - 2021-01-21 20:20 +0100
            Re: new harddrive degraded speed Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 20:40 +0100
        Re: new harddrive degraded speed Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-21 22:20 +0100
  Re: new harddrive degraded speed David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-21 22:10 +0100
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