Hard Drive data rates

[Karl Larsen]

Dave Stevens wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007 10:50:32 am Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I was lead to mis-understand the data rate of my new SATA hard
>> drive. It indicated that the data rate was 3 GB/sec. But some checking
>> with Google said the Hard Drive makers are very free with their units.
>> To be specific a SATA drive is 3000 MegaBits/second. This boils down to
>> about 375 MB.
>>
>>     The old standard IDE parallel 40 pin plug is rated for a rate of 112
>> MB at the fastest to 78 GB at the slowest part of the platter. So in my
>> case I will not see a huge change moving to my SATA hard drive. I will
>> stay here on the new IDE much longer.
>>     
>
> I'd be very interested in seeing the command and output for that drive using 
> hdparm -iItT
>
>   
>> --
>>
>> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>> 	Linux User
>> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>>     
>
> Karl,
>
> I use a Seagate 320 gig ES SATA drive. This is a 3 Gb/sec drive BUT - it was 
    I have read man hdparm and want nothing else to do with it. It is 
VERY DANGEROUS!

> -- 
>
> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
>