On 5/8/06, John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an R3240 with AMD64 running Ubuntu-64 Breezy. I'm thinking of upgrading the 60 GB 4200 rpm drive that it came with because it is just too slow. I have already increased the RAM to 1.25 GB and have since determined that the hard drive is the bottleneck. Considering the
Yes, the hard drive is definitely a bottleneck. The extra RAM should help a little bit since there is more space to buffer the hard disk.
following two Hitachi 7200 rpm drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822146047 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145100 I am an idiot when it comes to hardware compatibility. I don't know what ATA-6 means, for example. Would there be any problem with this
ATA-6 is not very common terminology, at least in marketing. The 6 basically refers to the data rate. I found this real quick if you are interested: http://www.computerhope.com/help/ide.htm#02 Anyway, for parallel ATA drives (as opposed to the new SATA), 6 is the fastest/newest at 100 MBps. This is what you want.
drive in my R3240? Will the R3240 be able to utilize its faster features, or will the ATA interface on the R3240 dumb the drive down to the point where there is no speed difference? (I don't need the space really, it's the speed I'm after.)
The speed improvement comes from the fact that it is spinning at 7200 RPM instead of 4200; the interface is still running at the same speed (the aforementioned 100 MBps). Hard drives are limited not so much by the interface speed, but by the fact that they have to wait for the platter to spin to where the data is under the read/write head. So, yes, it should utilize the faster features since the faster feature is the higher spin speed :). Jonathan _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
