Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Oh I was plenty broken up about it when I first realized... I lost
> about 4 and a half gig of mp3/ogg files, about 3 gig of tools, toys
> and tech docs that I'd accumulated over the last 2 years in the IT
> industry.. :-/
> But most of those were windows based and I rarely use windows now,
> plus I've always wanted to re-rip my mp3's into a better quality
> selection..
> 
> What happened? I started getting "Bad Block" errors so I rebuilt twice
> before I "got the message" and threw the towel in.

Scary.

The last 15 years of my life are stored on my drive. I have recently
started to worry as I realised just what a disaster that would be if I
lost all that. As soon as money permits, I plan to build a second
(cheap) Ubuntu box that will serve no purpose but back up my /home
partition on the main computer. Say via a fast Ethernet local network,
every night with cron job. Peace of mind is priceless...

Vince