solaris 10 sparc :
bash-3.00# time dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 bs=1048576 count=1000 of=/dev/null
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
real 0m15.203s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.073s
bash-3.00# time dd if=/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0 bs=1048576 count=1000 of=/dev/null
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
real 0m28.991s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.073s
same disks:
bash-3.00# iostat -nE
c1t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST336607LSUN36G Revision: 0207 Serial No: 0309A154E6
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c1t1d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST336704LSUN36G Revision: 032C Serial No: 0052D1C84Y
Size: 36.42GB <36418595328 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0