Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> I had a IBM hard drive(13GB) in a Dell desktop give me random
> segmentation faults that I couldn't reproduce, no matter how many
> different Linux distro's I tried to install as an inexperienced user, I
> got them, didn't get them with 'MS Windows'. 

Wow, I have the exact same problem...

> At the suggestion of a friend, replaced the drive and wall-lah(!), haven't had one fault
> since(two years).

Ohhhhhh, looks like yet another good reason to change my old drive
then !! :o)


Vince