Please help new hard drive install

[Knapp]

>
> you can test this yourself with hdparm
>
> hdparm -tT /dev/sda
> hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
>


/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   1284 MB in  2.00 seconds = 642.47 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  184 MB in  3.01 seconds =  61.04 MB/sec
douglas at frog:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   1870 MB in  2.00 seconds = 935.13 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  258 MB in  3.02 seconds =  85.39 MB/sec
douglas at frog:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   1568 MB in  2.00 seconds = 784.56 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  186 MB in  3.02 seconds =  61.60 MB/sec
douglas at frog:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   1504 MB in  2.00 seconds = 752.03 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  258 MB in  3.02 seconds =  85.31 MB/sec


So what should I make of that??

BTW it is a home system. Mostly email, and music running or maybe a movie.
When it gets hardcore I am running gimp, digicam, Blender3d and I always
have an Apache server running in the background but it only gets about 2
hits a week!

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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