Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Jon Dixon]

Another plus for Seagate is that they do a bootable CD with disk tools on them. 

None of this need a windows floppy crap from what I recall :)

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:36:29 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Wow, even with crap reliability, the chances of a given user having two
> faulty discs are statistically extremely slim (I would think ?) ! They
> must be really very crappy then :o(((
> 
> I will stick with Seagate then, their IDe disk look very performant,
> bith transfer rate and seek time, yet very affordable, and they come
> with 5 year warranty, which is about the time that elapses before I
> start thinking new motherboard/disks etc. So it's perfect for me :o)
> 
> Thanks for the warning.
> 
> Vince
> 
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