Re: [CentOS] compaq r4000 32 bit and 64 bit install

Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:

It may be just the hard drive. Compaq has been using ungodly slow Fujitsu 4200rpm drives of late. I experienced a substantial speedup on mine when I upgraded to a Hitachi Travelstar 7K100.

Have to 2nd that note.

Although the PowerNow!/Cool'n Quiet is having some effect, do _not_ expect desktop commodity/capacity disk performance out of a notebook HD. Even the 7200rpm notebook drives are still significantly slower than the 3.5" models.

We're currently experimenting with a Mini-ITX i915/Pentium-M system in-house with a Seagate 7200rpm 2.5" notebook SATA drive to see if it can drive multiple streams of 720p multimedia.