On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:00:55PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Jack Malmostoso wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > >>I > >>have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the > >>PowerBook if it would help speed it up... > > > >It sure would. But be prepared to quite an adventure if you want to > >replace your PB's HD on your own. Unfortunately it's nowhere like the > >Macbooks, as you have to disassemble all of your laptop. > > Well, darn it. I lied. > > The Thinkpad disk is a 5400 RPM disk drive (at least I think so, the > model number starts with HTS54 instead of HTS72...), and the PB's > 'hdparm -t' (buffered reads) numbers basically match that of the > Thinkpad (30-32 MB/sec on the PowerBook vs. 34-39 MB/sec on the > Thinkpad). However, the interesting part is that the 'hdparm -T' (cached > reads) numbers are different--Thinkpad gets at least 600 MB/sec, usually > closer to 620 MB/sec, PowerBook gets 400 MB/sec or so. Which number is > more meaningful? And would swapping disks let me take the 'hdparm -T' > number to the PB?
The slow one, the faster one is just a measurement of the speed of the memory cache, which is unless i am wrong the main memory. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
