Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[AntonioI]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:04 +0000, Thom May wrote:
> * Vincent Trouilliez (vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr) wrote :
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> > Could someone with a super modern (IDE or SCSI) hard drive, run this
> > command so I can get a feel for how much better modern drives are, ie,
> > is it worth buying one ? Thanks. :-)
> 
> My Serial ATA drive gets about 50MB/sec.

My 60 GB, 7.200 rpm, 3 years old, Western Digital IDE drive goes around
43 MB/sec (with hadparm) and it's really silent (I can't hear it
compared to my not-so-noisy cpu and case fans).

Only a normal newer IDE drive can give you (if not really 80 MB/sec) an
apprecciabily faster startup time.

- Antonio