Public bug reported: it seems that sata drives are being slow on laptops. i have had a few to play with and discovered slow read throughputs, i.e. 30MB/s maximum for at least 2 disks tested, which were hitachi made. there are a whole lot of websites reporting troubles with sata drives. this should probably be worked over as it seems to affect boot time very much. (a dual core AMD turion x2 64bit booting as fast or even a bit slower than a intel celeron m 1,6GHz with 32 bit and only one core does not feel right) it however seems not only to depend on the chipset, as this laptop here uses ICH7 and the other one was nvidia chipset. maybe it could be helpful to see though the posts on the forums. there seems to be some trouble with the chipset driver, as some of the issues dissappear when enabling raid as the disk controller on bios. which will not happen on laptops due to limited bioses.
regards jakub ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: linux-image-2.6.37-12-generic 2.6.37-12.26 Regression: Yes ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37 Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jan 19 21:11:20 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100630.2) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: linux ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705106 Title: slow sata hard drives in laptop -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs