In other words yes its will be noticeably slower. j l wrote:
>--- Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>hi, >>i have just switched to arch from ubuntu. arch is >>really fast in >>booting, that used to take forever with ubuntu. >>however, starting things >>like firefox and openoffice for the first time takes >>much longer in arch >>than in ubuntu i noticed. I do have arch on a >>5400rpm harddrive and >>ubuntu lives on a 7200rpm one. Can that really make >>a noticable >>difference to the speed? >> >> >>-- >> --Eric Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> UCLA ID#103297286|Linux 2.6.13-ARCH (i686) >> >>_______________________________________________ >>arch mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> >> >> > >going from 7200 to 5400 most certainly will be >noticed, 45 seconds will become 60. And your 7200 >drive will have a different cache size and could read >ahead or the data might be more compact. e.g. your >7200 drive will be bigger? then it is possible that >everything is on one physical track. Things like that >all add up. >There is also psychology in the picture, you might >notice something going slower more than the other way >round. > > > > > > >__________________________________ >Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. >http://farechase.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >arch mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
