On 2003.10.17 16:58 Shannon Roddy wrote: > My only bottleneck seems to be my older hard > drive. the drive is a slower 5400 RPM drive with not much cache and it > really slows things down. >
My drive is newer than that, but the hangs are still bad. Even my mouse will quit moving while the thing writes out. I think it has to do with M$'s nasty A-whatever power management which shares IRQs. It's nasty. My 650, which has the older APM, does not stutter like that.
