Buying hard drives

[Brett Worth]

ASUS A7V with 1Ghz Athlon, 133Mhz SDRAM, ATA66 FUJITSU MPF3204AT, 20Gb ATA DISK:

[racer.1003]# hdparm -t -T /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.92 seconds =139.13 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.94 seconds = 21.77 MB/sec


Brett