Hard Drive and Network Speed Tests?

[trueimage]

Here's a bench on my 3 HDDs...

 

root@Tower:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads:   3732 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1865.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  222 MB in  3.02 seconds =  73.51 MB/sec

root@Tower:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
Timing cached reads:   3652 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1825.60 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  200 MB in  3.02 seconds =  66.28 MB/sec

root@Tower:~# hdparm -tT /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:
Timing cached reads:   3620 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1810.61 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  222 MB in  3.00 seconds =  73.91 MB/sec

 

How do those look??

 

What is the best way to test network xfer speed?

[Billped]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/24310/77/

 

Not necessarily the best, but it seems that folks are gravitating to this as a standard.

 

 

Bill

[limetech]

trueimage - those speeds are typical for a 7200 RPM hard drive reading data on the outer cylinders.  Speed will drop off considerably (some as much as 40%) as you move towards the inner cylinders.