| 摘要 |
A hard drive optimization function is provided to the set-up utility of the basic input/output service (BIOS) of a computer system. When executed, the optimization function benchmarks the hard drive's overall performance with sequential accesses for a number of transfer block sizes, employing various access block sizes for each transfer block size. In one embodiment, the optimization function determines the optimal transfer block size by comparing the average throughput (kbytes/sec) for the transfer block sizes examined. The average throughput for each transfer block size is determined through a number of sequential accesses made using the access block sizes. The access block sizes are systematically synthesized in accordance to a number of benchmarking parameters. |
