Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Michael Brandtner]

Am Dienstag, den 15.02.2005, 11:58 +0100 schrieb 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.

My old IBM DTLA 60GB is:
Timing buffered disk reads:  108 MB in  3.03 seconds =  35.63 MB/sec

My 1.5 years old WD 120GB:
Timing buffered disk reads:  142 MB in  3.00 seconds =  47.28 MB/sec