On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:16:03 -0500 JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I have an R3240 with AMD64 running Ubuntu-64 Breezy. I'm thinking of > > upgrading the 60 GB 4200 rpm drive that it came with because it is just > > too slow. I have already increased the RAM to 1.25 GB and have since > > determined that the hard drive is the bottleneck. Considering the > > following two Hitachi 7200 rpm drives: > > I replaced the 5400 with a 7200 just after purchasing the machine a few > years ago. Though it is faster it is still NOT desktop performance. I have just about decided to buy the Hitachi 80 GB Travelstar 7200 rpm drive. Newegg has it for $135 with $5 for three-day shipping. I'm curious, though, why you are not getting desktop performance. I am not getting the same speed from my R3240 as I do with my aging Windows 2000 desktop, but I have been assuming it was the hard drive. The desktop has a 7200 rpm drive that is just plain ATA, dual AMD 1200 CPUs and 1 GB RAM and runs Windows 2000, compared to the R3240 with the AMD64 3200 and 1.25 GB of RAM, using Ubuntu-64 Breezy. Other than the fact that the R3240 has a 4200 rpm drive, it should be noticeably faster. Yet, even in operations where the drive is not being used, I note that it is not really much faster than the desktop. The other day I needed to use the desktop run a script to place a 620-page PDF file twice on each page of a document in InDesign (two-up layout). There was no disk activity during the operation. It took about 15 minutes to complete. Wish I could duplicate that as a test on the R3240, but can't run InDesign CS under Linux. I just know that lots of things are way slower on the R3240. Mostly boot time, program load time and time needed to save documents. On the desktop OO.o 2.0 Writer will launch in about 20 seconds with a new Writer document. On the R3240 it takes more than twice that long. This is why I think I will get a significant benefit from the faster hard drive. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
