SATA Silicon Image Speed Issue

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

From: "Mark Lane" <mark at harddata.com>
> On May 26, 2004 11:14 am, Si Jones <si at bananas.hopto.org> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Me and someone else are getting what seems to be a slow speed out of the
> > hard drive, we have the sil3114 controller and we get 55mb a sec.
> >
>
> I assume you mean 55 MegaBytes (MB) not milibits (mb).
>
> Hmm, 55MB/s is pretty fast for a single IDE drive. The only time you will
> approach 100+ mb/s is talking directly with the drive's cache. Not even
15K
> SCSI drives do much over 60MB/s as the drive physically can't read and
write
> 100+ MB/s.

Okay, stupid question here...where could I check the numbers for my drives?
I've got an IDE and a SATA and I'm curious to see how they're doing.

Thanks!

Ben