Palimpsest
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 17:08
Well, this is about a hardware software but it's still a useful program, so I'll put it here.
I caught wind of this, somehow, during google searching about drive information. It seems very capable for that, showing serial number and firmware version, a couple of things that interest me from time to time, and appears to have a lot of advanced capability, most of which I haven't dipped into.
You might notice the Benchmark buttons, another topic that's been on my mind, what with my new (old tech, sata II) ssd. From what I have read, the write benchmark will only work on an empty disk. The read mark shows very good performance for my ssd, especially seek time, but I'm a bit unconvinced as the hdparm -tT benchmark is lower.
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[rolf@localhost ~]$ rpm -qi palimpsest
Name : palimpsest Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.32.1 Vendor: Mandriva
Release : 2 Build Date: Thu 05 May 2011 03:26:59 AM PDT
Install Date: Sat 27 Oct 2012 06:51:33 PM Build Host: seggie.mandriva.com
Group : System/Configuration/Other Source RPM: gnome-disk-utility-2.32.1-2.src.rpm
Size : 649870 License: LGPLv2+
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 09 Nov 2011 02:34:12 AM PST, Key ID e7898ae070771ff3
Packager : Per Øyvind Karlsen <peroyvind@mandriva.org>
URL : http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-disk-utility
Summary : Disk management application
Architecture: x86_64
Description :
This package contains the Palimpsest disk management application.
Palimpsest supports partitioning, file system creation, encryption,
RAID, SMART monitoring, etc.I caught wind of this, somehow, during google searching about drive information. It seems very capable for that, showing serial number and firmware version, a couple of things that interest me from time to time, and appears to have a lot of advanced capability, most of which I haven't dipped into.
You might notice the Benchmark buttons, another topic that's been on my mind, what with my new (old tech, sata II) ssd. From what I have read, the write benchmark will only work on an empty disk. The read mark shows very good performance for my ssd, especially seek time, but I'm a bit unconvinced as the hdparm -tT benchmark is lower.
