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Old 13th November 2008
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Seagate 15K.4 (SCSI), about 4 years old:

Code:
pinot# diskinfo -c -t /dev/da1
/dev/da1
	512         	# sectorsize
	36703934464 	# mediasize in bytes (34G)
	71687372    	# mediasize in sectors
	4462        	# Cylinders according to firmware.
	255         	# Heads according to firmware.
	63          	# Sectors according to firmware.

I/O command overhead:
	time to read 10MB block      0.141310 sec	=    0.007 msec/sector
	time to read 20480 sectors   4.005664 sec	=    0.196 msec/sector
	calculated command overhead			=    0.189 msec/sector

Seek times:
	Full stroke:	  250 iter in   2.293915 sec =    9.176 msec
	Half stroke:	  250 iter in   1.676370 sec =    6.705 msec
	Quarter stroke:	  500 iter in   2.717760 sec =    5.436 msec
	Short forward:	  400 iter in   1.457543 sec =    3.644 msec
	Short backward:	  400 iter in   0.886641 sec =    2.217 msec
	Seq outer:	 2048 iter in   0.392236 sec =    0.192 msec
	Seq inner:	 2048 iter in   0.540832 sec =    0.264 msec
Transfer rates:
	outside:       102400 kbytes in   1.098587 sec =    93211 kbytes/sec
	middle:        102400 kbytes in   1.232444 sec =    83087 kbytes/sec
	inside:        102400 kbytes in   1.892680 sec =    54103 kbytes/sec
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