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Benchmark results for Samsung S2 Portable 500GB USB 2.0 External HD Performance: Write (K/sec): 34974 ( 52% of the HD Performance of my notebook ) Re-write (K/sec): 17612 ( 59% of the HD Performance of my notebook ) Read (K/sec): 46580 ( 64% of the HD Performance of my notebook ) Seeks/sec: 123.8 ( 164% of the HD Performance of my notebook ) Conclusion: The theoretical speed limit for USB 2.0 would be 60 MByte/sec. The read speed is about 78% of this value wich is not bad. Even not feeling slow, this HD could be faster. About tests: Command line run on both notebooks: # bonnie++ -n 0 -u 0 -r 8192 -f -b -d /media/Peter-ext3/bonnie/ Bonnie 1.96 @ Fedora 15 # hdparm -I /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: SAMSUNG HM502JX Serial Number: C2271F141A0TE5 Firmware Revision: 2AC101C4 Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6 Standards: Used: un

I was not able to use WiFi on Toshiba R830 running Fedora 15. There were missing firmware files for iwl6000g2b adapter. It is very easy to fix it: # yum install iwl6000g2b-firmware Then reboot and your Wifi will be running after next boot. :-)

Test systems: System 1: 2007 noteoobk: Toshiba U205-S5067: Core 2 Duo T7200 , 4GB RAM, 320 GB HD System 2: 2011 notebook: Toshiba R830-10P: Core i7 2620M , 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD This benchmark result is not only affected by the processor. Almost all system components affects the result. The processor is only the main component. Results: Evaluating overall performance, for compiling Linux Kernel and generate its RPM packages for Fedora 15: Core i7 system is 2.85 times faster than Core 2 Duo system . Details I've run the steps described on: http://kdpeter.blogspot.com/2011/05/steps-to-test-kernel-build-on-fedora-15.html , for the kernel package kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.src.rpm. The only difference to the procedure described above is that I added the command "time" in the building step, to be able to compare necessary time to do same task. $ time rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --without debuginfo --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec Individual results System 1: Core 2

System 1: 2007 noteoobk: Toshiba U205-S5067: Core 2 Duo T7200, 4GB RAM, 320 GB HD System 2: 2011 notebook: Toshiba R830-10P: core i7 2620M, 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD How many times faster is SSD?? Write: 2.50 times faster Re-write: 2.83 times faster Read: 3.89 times faster Seeks/sec: 23.99 times faster Benchmark results: System 1: 320GB SATA HD Write (K/sec): 66608 Re-write (K/sec): 29609 Read (K/sec): 71894 Seeks/sec: 75.4 System 2: 256GB SATA SSD Write (K/sec): 166827 Re-write (K/sec): 84040 Read (K/sec): 280068 Seeks/sec: 1809 About tests: Command line run on both notebooks: # bonnie++ -n 0 -u 0 -r 8192 -f -b -d /bonnie/ Bonnie 1.96 @ Fedora 15 System 1 HD info: hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: Model=SAMSUNG HM320JI, FwRev=2SS00_01, SerialNo=S16LJF0S221285 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off CurCHS=16383/16