[mythtv-users] Slightly OT: hdparm results

[Bruce Markey]

Wood, Mike wrote:
...
> I'm trying to make sure my hard drive is performing optimally for MythTV so
> I just wanted to bounce these numbers off you to see if they look ok:
> 
> [root at MythTV sysconfig]# hdparm -t /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  4.23 seconds = 15.13 MB/sec

A 3.6GB/hr file would be 1MB/sec and a 1GB/hr file would be less
than 300KB/sec. So, yes, 15.13MB/sec is faster than 1MB/sec.

>  using_dma    =  1 (on)

This is the only thing that matters so you're good to go.

--  bjm