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Old 13th November 2008
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I have three of these drives in my home system. The results are within 3% of each other for all three. So I've only posted the data from one:

Code:
ad4: detached                              
ad4: 152627MB <WDC WD1600JS-56MHB1 10.02E01> at ata2-master SATA150
ad4: 152627MB <WDC WD1600JS-56MHB1 10.02E01> at ata2-master SATA150
Code:
# diskinfo -c -t /dev/ad4
/dev/ad4                                               
        512             # sectorsize                   
        160041885696    # mediasize in bytes (149G)    
        312581808       # mediasize in sectors         
        310101          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        16              # Heads according to firmware.    
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.  
        ad:WD-WCANMD687666      # Disk ident.             

I/O command overhead:
        time to read 10MB block      0.465710 sec       =    0.023 msec/sector
        time to read 20480 sectors   1.906245 sec       =    0.093 msec/sector
        calculated command overhead                     =    0.070 msec/sector

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in   5.352183 sec =   21.409 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   3.744667 sec =   14.979 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in   6.328028 sec =   12.656 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   1.750907 sec =    4.377 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   2.813370 sec =    7.033 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.463089 sec =    0.226 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.216843 sec =    0.106 msec
Transfer rates:                                                     
        outside:       102400 kbytes in   1.736854 sec =    58957 kbytes/sec
        middle:        102400 kbytes in   1.900757 sec =    53873 kbytes/sec
        inside:        102400 kbytes in   3.323692 sec =    30809 kbytes/sec
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