Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> i'm getting 33.something MB/s on my 40GB laptop drive...

Sounds great, especially for a laptop drive !
Could someone try it on a supe rmodern full size IDE drive for
comparison ??
Looks like changing my drive is indeed a good idea... :-)

> you might want to check to see if your drive has been configured correctly...

Yeah everything is normal. It's just that the drive is quite old, 3
years or so.


Vince