Are my sata drives operating at the right speed?

[sgtfoo]

we had a pretty long discussion of what works for keeping transfer speeds up for reading/writing to the shares...

http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... fer+speeds

go through it and see what might help.

Myself I'm not an expert with Linux enough to tell you about your SATA interfaces without having the hardware in front of me.

what's your mobo model/make?
what are your hard drive(s) model/make?

[kikkegek]

we had a pretty long discussion of what works for keeping transfer speeds up for reading/writing to the shares...

http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... fer+speeds

go through it and see what might help.

Myself I'm not an expert with Linux enough to tell you about your SATA interfaces without having the hardware in front of me.

what's your mobo model/make?
what are your hard drive(s) model/make?

mobo: iDot Computers
model: PC2500E
CPU: VIA C7-D 1.5GHz

http://www.idot.com.tw/en/products/mb-pc2500e/

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/dev/sda: Model=WDC WD10EARS-00MVWB0, FwRev=51.0AB51, SerialNo=WD-WCAZA7199244 /dev/sdb: Model=SAMSUNG HD753LJ, FwRev=1AA01109, SerialNo=S13UJ1KQ331160

ow and just found out that my second disk is in UDMA6 mode

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[root@amahi jochen]# hdparm -i /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Model=SAMSUNG HD753LJ, FwRev=1AA01109, SerialNo=S13UJ1KQ331160 Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1465149168 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode

while my first disk is in UDMA2 mode

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[root@amahi jochen]# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: Model=WDC WD10EARS-00MVWB0, FwRev=51.0AB51, SerialNo=WD-WCAZA7199244 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=50 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953525168 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode