James Wilkinson wrote: > Perhaps more to the point, you'll be doing extremely well to get more > than 60-70 MB/s out of the current generation of hard drives. IIRC, a > number of manufacturers are still on ATA100 simply due to this > limitation. > My advice? If you've got decent hard drive performance, be happy. If > not, something else is wrong. > If 54 MB/s decent performance? (Output from hdparm -t) I realise the best way to increase performance is to have more than one drive, even without RAID. I briefly had my home partition on a different drive, and the system was noticeably faster. However, my main aim is to make my system as quiet as possible, so two drives isn't the best solution! I was just curious as to why the log showed those messages about ATA/133! Jonathan
