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HighD

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From: Costa Rica

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 31

How to improve HD performance on an SATA HD?

How to improve HD performance on an SATA HD?

I own a SATA250 Western Digital HD. I've read dma is not available or rather can't be turned on SATA drives because it's a different say better technology. Is this right? I also have read about sdparm, what is a safe configuration for sdparm?

Thanks for the help

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"...Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be..."
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rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: How to improve HD performance on an SATA HD?

in fstab do you have "noatime"  option?

/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime  0 1

read here
http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap6sec73.html

with this i feel it runs quite a bit faster i havent looked much into hdparm so i wont say anything there

HighD

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From: Costa Rica

Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 31

Re: How to improve HD performance on an SATA HD?

in fstab do you have "noatime"  option?

Nope, no "noatime". Will look further into it. Thanks! In any case, I really want to use sdparm.

Thanks!

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"...Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be..."
George Sheehan quotes (American physician, author and running enthusiast, 1918 - 1993)

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: How to improve HD performance on an SATA HD?

give atime a chance i think you will be surprised at performance increase
dont let me sway you from sdparm