The downside involves just how much data you're reading in. Seeing as how the speed
is now so much greater - about 5 times greater - you run the risk of having your hard
drive coming loose, bouncing around inside the case, and perhaps causing bodily harm
if it should escape altogether.
My suggestion: line the inside of your computer case with heavy-duty duct tape, the
handyman's secret weapon.
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On 4/25/00 at 2:14 PM vern wrote:
>Okay, being an old skeptic and a young Linux mechanic
>what's the "downside" of such a tweak??
>Will I have data errors (read/write) corrupted files,
>and such??
>Why is the "default" set so low??
>Vern
>
>Larry Varney wrote:
>>
>> Mine was similar, until I did the "hdparm -d1 hda", and the result jumped up into
>the 13 MB/sec range. Changing the umask didn't seem to make any difference, though.
