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Values reported in previous post are for 3.5" 160GB 7200rpm IDE HDD running under Ubuntu Hardy on an older desktop motherboard. [Other operating systems installed on the same machine seem to have much better HDD perforamance.]
2.5" 60GB 4200rpm SATA HDD on notebook under Ubuntu Hardy:
dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 1364 MB in 2.00 seconds = 682.38 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 84 MB in 3.06 seconds = 27.42 MB/sec