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Quoting Peder Hedlund :
> Those numbers seem about right. The three disks in my PC at work show:

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>

> sda: Samsung SpinPoint SP0411C 40GB SATA/150 7200RPM 2MB HDD

> /dev/sda:

>   Timing cached reads:   2920 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1460.18 MB/sec

>   Timing buffered disk reads:  150 MB in  3.02 seconds =  49.72 MB/sec

Hmm, I tried using hdparm-9.3 (as opposed to the default 6.6) and the

cached reads dropped to short of 700. The buffered numbers remained

though.
- Peder

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