On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:05:17AM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote: > I installed a new 500Gb SATA drive into my 6.1 system and am greatly > disappointed with its performance. Although straight reading is > Ok at around 32Mb/s, the writing is never more than 7Mb/s (as reported > by `systat 1 -vm' while running `cat < /dev/zero > /dev/ad8'). > > I reported this a few months ago (running 6.0 then), and one of the > suggestions was, the drive is bad. Well, I'm seeing the same with its > replacement... > > Also, KNOPPIX-4.0.2 can write to the drive at 22Mb/s (using dd). Just to be clear: this is Knoppix running on the *same* machine as you've been testing FreeBSD? (In other words, you've not unplugged the drive and plugged it into a different PC or controller?) Aside: why are you using cat under FreeBSD, but dd under Knoppix? I'd use dd everywhere for consistency. Regards, Brian.Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 13:41:30 UTC
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