Skip to content

Tag: disk

Seek time benchmark for linux

This site provided a nice short c program to measure seek times. I would attach the file in case that site goes down, but this blog still has upload errors...

Read More »

Dropping all Linux disk cache

sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

source.

Read More »

Disabling Intellipark on the WD15EARS

I just got two Western Digital 1.5TB WD15EARS disks. This drive has a feature called intellipark, which parks the head after the disk is not used for a while. This is supposedly a power saving feature. But, as someone explains, it can also severely decrease the lifetime of your drive. Read More »