Subject: RE: Fastest disk tranfer rates
To: Mark Randelhoff <markr@cat.co.za>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/30/1999 20:04:27
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mark Randelhoff wrote:

> As I see it the writes would be equally interesting barometer of disk
> performance. Our experience with the EBSA has indicated that dma reads are
> in decent bursts, but those of the writes are far to small and numerous to
> get anything like the performance on the reads. We looked at this a while
> back so I dont have the timings right now...
> 
> What is your write performance like?
I've measured raw writes in the past but cannot remember the figures.
Currently I don't have any nice big free partitions on a disk that I can
trash with raw write tests.

I'll see if I can dig some figures out.

Cheers,
				Mark