lundi 16 juillet 2012

Bedroom museum, part 1 : IDE HDD

Who said hard drive fails. Plugged a Seagate ST32122A 2GB 4500RPM IDE. Didn't like its first boot but runs fine now, crunchy though. Debian 3.0 on it (300MB used), as soft NAT router.

For fun, reading tests:

luser@x60s_GPT ~ (master*) % sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   1586 MB in  2.00 seconds = 793.22 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  20 MB in  3.02 seconds =   6.62 MB/sec


luser@x60s_GPT ~ (master*) % sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   1582 MB in  2.00 seconds = 791.04 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  20 MB in  3.04 seconds =   6.58 MB/sec


take that MicroSD.