Ultimate Edition Forum

jfg69 wrote:

TheeMahn wrote:Tomorrow my 2 X 500 GB WD Raid Edition drives arrive. Will raid 0 them XFS purely for backup purposes. I will then xfer all my info from my 320s, whack them and raid 0 them for booting I am going to try note the word "try" and get xfs as my root partition on the 320's (may have to use lilo for that 1, grub and xfs don't play well), don't know what I'll do with the 250 probably windows on the other sata controller. Room for 3 more if I have to do that again it will be 3 TB drives, it will be quite a while i should hope. Will post results when I have them up and running in raid configuration and post a how to with screenshots..

Sweet... Thats a damn lotta drives and a whole helluva lotta space! Which as we all know, is NEVER enough...

Yep, you have that right Ubuntu-Ultiamte-Gamers-1.6a , b , c, d , e etc. Each at ~4GB sucks the space with the quickness I don't remove them until it goes final. And keep each final for example:

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theemahn@SledgeHammer:/media/Storage/ISOS/Ultimate$ ls -l
total 23410812
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn     274561 2007-08-23 13:55 appsngames-gamers1.4.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 1574207488 2006-12-18 00:10 ubuntuchristmas.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 1795072000 2007-01-17 21:47 ubuntu-ultimate1.1.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 1718566912 2007-02-18 23:51 ubuntu-ultimate1.2.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 3176419328 2007-02-27 05:37 ubuntu-ultimate-1.3-gamers.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 1997391872 2007-03-15 12:22 ubuntu-ultimate1.3.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn ntfs      718888960 2007-07-10 19:41 ubuntu-ultimate-1.4-cd.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 2083522560 2007-07-31 14:32 ubuntu-ultimate-1.4-dvd.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 2746753024 2007-08-28 03:30 ubuntu-ultimate-1.4-gamers-amd64.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 3946809344 2007-08-23 02:22 ubuntu-ultimate-1.4-gamers.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 2341859328 2007-09-11 18:36 ubuntu-ultimate-1.5-dvd.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn 1872533504 2007-10-22 10:48 ubuntu-ultimate-1.6-dvd.iso
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn     275030 2007-08-15 14:06 uug1.4gamers.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 theemahn theemahn      54585 2007-08-17 20:28 uug1.4gamers.txt.tar.gz
theemahn@SledgeHammer:/media/Storage/ISOS/Ultimate$

24 GB in nothing but final releases. Does it warrant a TB? Probably not, but I recently lost one of my 320's or so I thought xfs_repair is a wonderful tool. Just the thought of losing 320GB yes, that drive is almost 100% full, made me start to think differently. The other 320 is under constant strain and indeed could fail as well. The 500's will pretty much idle, exclusively for backup purposes. May take the time to write a bash backup script executed as a cron job there is no-one I trust more then me when it comes to writing software... No pun intended. May feel "froggy" and take the time and write it in C, regardlessly I will post it in my programming section for others to reap the benefits.

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/dev/sda1: Timing cached reads:   2486 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1243.54 MB/sec

/dev/sda1: Timing buffered disk reads:  104 MB in  3.05 seconds =  34.11 MB/sec


These are my results... They are not very good, I need a new HDD for my laptop

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/dev/sda1:
 Timing cached reads:   942 MB in  2.00 seconds = 470.52 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  186 MB in  3.03 seconds =  61.46 MB/sec



seagate 500gb sata 1.5gbps version

not too bad right? my other hdd is dead so cant test that one. but its identical so im sure it would read the same.

drama1981 wrote:

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/dev/sda1:
 Timing cached reads:   942 MB in  2.00 seconds = 470.52 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  186 MB in  3.03 seconds =  61.46 MB/sec



seagate 500gb sata 1.5gbps version

not too bad right? my other hdd is dead so cant test that one. but its identical so im sure it would read the same.

Thats pretty good, just goes to show Sata 1.5 & Sata 3.0GiB Don't do anything for speed if your systems' not capable i have the 3.0's, but no visable improvement over what you have here. I'll have to try this again after TheeMahns tweakiing page in how-to's and see if it makes a difference or not.

i dont think anyone can beat this

/dev/sda1:

Timing cached reads: 170 MB in 2.01 seconds = 84.66 MB/sec

on this machine im using Ultimate Edition 1.5 and the hdd is a 10 gig 5.25 inch quantum bigfoot, about 13 year old i think the hdd is.

and the mobo is running a celeron 400 with 256 meg of ram.
with linux it is quite useable... if you try anything other then linux, it is unbearable

/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 170 MB in 2.01 seconds = 84.66 MB/sec

Sorry to hear that .... everybody beatcha I used to have an identical drive about 10 years ago, they make a pretty cool sound (kinda like a woodpecker)

/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 8760 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4384.59 MB/sec
brad@StrikerExtreme:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 232 MB in 3.02 seconds = 76.94 MB/sec

My laptop clocks at:


/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 7442 MB in 1.99 seconds = 3732.58 MB/sec

This is mine
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 3462 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1732.51 MB/sec

Does anyone have a Solid State Drive, I would like to know how much faster(if at all) these drives are. Also, I would like to know if setting up RAID 0 will make my system faster. My current drive is a 160GB 5200RPM? (Notebook) gets about 800MB/s cached reads.