Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Well the hard drive in my laptop died yesterday, 

You make it sound trivial, that's a disaster !!! :-0   :-/  :o( 
I have never had a drive die, what happened to yours exactly ?
I ma worried, 10/15 years ago I would hear frequently of faulty drives,
but I got the feeling in the recent years that the quality/reliability
had increased a lot. I am wrong? you all have me worried now. :-/
Or is it just because you use a laptop so drive is much mor stressed
than a desktop drive ? I hope so :o(

> and I've replaced it with a slightly faster drive (old one was 4200 rpm new one is 5400
> rpm), 

I just read on Seagates site last night, that the 5,400rpm drives are
much faster than the difference in speed might suggest...

> it's only a small change in speed but makes the "feeling" of Ubuntu a lot snappier..

That's  marvelous news. A modern IDE drives will be a massive change in
perf. compared to my existing drive, so I can't wait to see how that
transforms my Warty :o)))


Vince