Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> 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.

Wow, it's 4 times the price of a "normal" drive, if I ever spend that
amount of money on a disk, I may just as well go for a SCSI one ! :-/
And it's SATA, don't like SATA (too young), and my motherboard doesn't
have SATA controllers, it's 3 year old already (boy does time travel
faster than light ! :-/ )

Vince