On 2013-04-12 16:55 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:
Just to refresh the memories, I have an external USB3 HDD (a Seagate 2TB) which I split into 2 partitions: partition 1 formatted in ext4 and partition 2 formatted in ntfs.
Presumably, each is about half the entire HD? If so, and #1 is at the front of the HD and #2 brings up the rear, then you can expect #2 to be slower even if using the same filesystem type as #1. http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/bench/Sysbench/resul606.txt is typical of benchmarking I've done in the past, and clearly shows a big speed advantage near the front on two different 160GB HDs. I tried using the dbench utility to test my own Seagate 2TB HD on eSATA that is half EXT2 and half NTFS, but it produced even more bizarre results: front/EXT2 half of HD: http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/bench/dbench-ext2.txt Throughput 431.269 MB/sec last/NTFS half of HD: http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/bench/dbench-ntfs.txt Throughput 26.5151 MB/sec -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org