On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 10:25, Edward wrote: > 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?). Nope.. Notebook. That was tested with _nothing_ running This is with my Low end PII300 512MB+WD2000/8MB cache Server. [note the very slow speed due to usage of ATA33 only) /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.52 seconds = 84.21 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.63 seconds = 24.33 MB/sec > 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. Ironically, MS Office running under crossover office loads in a snap of a finger. > > 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. Well. what're you waiting for? Something Free to fall on your lap? Hey.. FC2 _is_ Free! > > Regards, > Ed. -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 11:09:39 up 14:22, 13 users, load average: 1.19, 1.04, 0.97
