Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Gerard Sharpe]

If you are looking for the top of the line non-SCSI drive and hard drive
space is not a big concern I would suggest looking into the Western Digital
Raptor which high quality 10K RPM drive with the added bonus of having a 5
year warranty. 

Your mobo will need to support SATA to use these drives which most new ones
do. They come in a 36GB and 74GB configuration. 

A good review and drive comparison although a little old can be seen at
Storage Review:
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200401/20040126WD740GD_1.html

Hope this helps.


R
Gerard

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Vincent
Trouilliez
Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2005 2:19 AM
To: Ubuntu mailing list
Subject: Re: Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

> 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).

Hmm yes, that is right. I do have a similar WD drive (albeit 40GB not
60), it was indeed quick. But I think I damaged it during handling (when
carrying my machine in the car to visit a friend...), and it is now VERY
noisy. Therefore I removed it and put another hard drive I had laying
around. A Seagate. Very silent, (both spining and head noise), but, as I
said, does only 20MB/s max... :o(

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

Yes, I am sold, I will get a Seagate Baraccuda drive, cheapest one costs
only 45 Euros, 40GB, just the size I need :o)
Might go up to 50 Euros and get the 80GB one though...


Vince


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