Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Jon Dixon]

Talking of reliability...

IBM drives (now Hitachi) had a bad time with some of their 120GXP drives.

I had two go *poof* which I was not amused about because the returns
process causes sometimes lengthy downtime.

I'd go with Western Digital or Seagate these days.

Jon

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:24:49 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > 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
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