[sclug] Hard disk performance question

[Derek M Jones]

Neil,

>I have two IDE hard drives fitted:
>
>Seagate Barracuda 40Gb 7200rpm on Primary Master  (/dev/hda)
>IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40Gb 7200rpm on Secondary Master (/dev/hdc)
>
>The IBM is about 50% slower than the Seagate. Any ideas if I can improve this by tweaking? Here are the parametrs and performance figures:

Performance is not just driven by rpm.

I found that putting the swap partition on the least often
accessed drive made a bug difference.


derek

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