Ow Mun Heng wrote:
You CAN get 7200RPM 8Mb cache ones now but I've never seen a notebook come with one as they are more expensive.
You can get one for VERY much more expensive though..
I'm running on an Hitachi/IBM 5400rpm 80GB 8MB Cache and I get
/dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1284 MB in 2.00 seconds = 641.46 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.05 seconds = 34.78 MB/sec
That's actually very good for a notebook (or do you mean desktop?).
For a server I'm running a 192Mb HP Vectra 600MHz with Seagate 20Gb HDD (Yes, its a little on the low side but it was free!).
/dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: Roughly 263MB/sec on 3 tries. Timing buffered disk reads: Roughly 26MB/sec on 3 tries.
Openoffice Calc loads in about 15 seconds.
I share your pain, but I don't use it very often so I tolerate it.
I'm not (yet) running FC on my 3.2GHz D865PERL based PC with 1Gb Dual and 2 x WD2500JD in striped raid (500GB), but it would be an interesting test! It flies with XP.
Regards, Ed.
