Those speeds are still fairly average looking. Maybe it's just what the older three platter laptop drives do. Kleborp's figures are on the top side of results with 2 platter 5,400 spin 2.5" drives.masi wrote:Kleborp:
I get cached reads of about 300-350 MB/s and buffered reads of about 40-45 MB/s.
hdparm isn't much of a speed test tool either, more as a guide really.
Bonnie++ would tell you if you wanted to know for sure.