On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:31:48PM +0100, Bent wrote: > For what it is worth, here is a measurement done on a 5501 running Gentoo Linux: > > leopold ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda I would not trust hdparm for [any kind of] benchmarking. As I pointed before, use dd with iflag=direct which skips the cache. regards, Iustin