Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:43:33 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= <sumirati@yahoo.de> To: Nader Turki <nturki@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5400RPM/7200RPM Message-ID: <20020313104333.48679.qmail@web13304.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Nader Turki wrote: > hi all, > > i sold my pc and i'm using my old gateway right now. it's an old > PII333MHz, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, 4.1GB quantum fireball (UDMA33). i'm > running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE with blackbox. > Hi Nader, I'm no pro in determining which IDE disk is better/faster/bigger/cooler/etc. This is a question where the answer is the default: It depends. In this case it depends on your usage of your computer. If you are doing a lot of disk-io (eg. running a loaded database, a loaded web-server ....) the faster the better. If you are only starting your computer, running <browser of choice>, Star-Office, <mail-program of choice>, using X and some tools you will see a "faster" startup of your programs - but otherwise mostly no difference should be seen. "Faster" means in this case some seconds or subseconds. If you want it faster because you can't wait 1 or 2 seconds longer to get Mozilla (for example) started, buy the faster one and a new controller ... I'm running a SCSI U-160 disk with 10,000 RPM in my main workstation - it is kind of fast - and kind of loud. Next time I will buy the slower one, for sure (But it is quiet compared to the SparcStation 10 ...). My other workstation is a Pentium 200 with 128 MB RAM, 4 GB SCSI disk with 5400 RPM ... and it is fast enough for normal jobs like browsing, mailing, compiling. My gateway is a 486 at the moment. Perhaps I get PicoBSD or ClosedBSD running on my 386 SX and hopefully that machine is capable of saturating a DSL-link - then that will be my gateway. Your hardware is not old :) Hope that helps Marc __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Ihre E-Mail noch individueller? - http://domains.yahoo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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