Hard Drive RPMs

[Ashcrow]

Is there a utility that can say what your current hrad drive RPM speed is?

[Ashcrow]

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/li...29/hdparm.html ... very cool!

[ASCI_Blue]

hdparm is leet.

[pbharris]

hdparm can't tell the speed of the platters though. - right? i did the hdparm -i /dev/hda and did not see any rpm info...

[ScRapZ_1]

Try using -Tt instead of -i

{root@Linoleum} (/home/aaron) (#) hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads: * 128 MB in *0.75 seconds =170.67 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: *64 MB in *2.28 seconds = 28.07 MB/sec

T tells you the cached speeds, and t tells you the pyhsical disk speed.

...but of course, thats not going to tell you how fast its spinning at, so I'll just shut up now :

TTFN,
ScRapZ_1 :P

[Ashcrow]

hdparm can't tell the speed of the platters though. - right? i did the hdparm -i /dev/hda and did not see any rpm info...

Yeah it doesn't say what the RPM's are but it can be used to speed up your disk a good amount.