I would agree with this. I upgraded mine from a 40 gig 5400 to an 80 gig 7200. I didn't do any benchmarking with the old drive, and I don't have a desktop to compare performance to, but I didn't notice the stellar performance upgrade I was expecting with a 7200 rpm drive.. Startup of apps is still pretty slow on first run...bootup time didn't seem to change at all.
JT Moree wrote: > John Jason Jordan 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 > >> following two Hitachi 7200 rpm drives: > > I replaced the 5400 with a 7200 just after purchasing the machine a few > years ago. Though it is faster it is still NOT desktop performance. > > -- > JT Morée > PC Xperience, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ > _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
