On 23/05/12 09:04, madworm_de.opensuse@spitzenpfeil.org wrote:
On 05/23/2012 12:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/05/22 22:43 (GMT+0200) madworm_de.opensuse@spitzenpfeil.org composed:
Gunnar wrote:
My windows disk is a SATA disk, my Linux disk are one "old" disk that I have used for a long time. :-)) Time to get a new(er) disk for linux then. There's no excuse for a Seagate 340G PATA HD to be less than 15% of the speed of a SATA HD. It should be good for between 70% and 100% of SATA speed, depending on the actual speed of the SATA device compared to.
No wonder your system is in an unusable state with such a thing. Clearly it's unusually slow, but a newer HD isn't necessarily going to help much if anything at all. Well, a new disk would (should) be SATA. That would probably also mean different controller / different driver. And if his SATA disks are as fast as they should be is easy to find out if he runs the hdparm command on his windows disk.
If he doesn't already use an 80pin cable and has one to test that is fine. But I wouldn't buy one. Personally I consider any PATA harddisk as "end of life".
I wouldn't. A waste of money if the HDD is still working perfectly and SMART is not giving any distress signals. I have a number of HDDs (Maxtor) which are some 9 years old now. See my previous post re 80-wire/40-wire cables. [................] BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE 4.8.3 and kernel 3.3.6 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org