On 09/12/2010 07:05 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I might end up buying a different drive!
Get an Intel SSD (solid-state drive). Much, much faster than rotating
magnetic drives, if you can accept 80 GB sizing (or 160 GB for $$).
- Mike
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On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 18:12 -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
> performance, and I
>can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
>
> Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H
> Memory: 8Gbyte 1333
> Disk: 1TB W
On 09/13/2010 04:14 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>
> You almost certainly have a drive with a 4KB physical sector size, and it
> will suffer a 10-fold drop in write performance if your partitions do not
> start on logical (512-byte) sector numbers that are a multiple of 8.
> Align your partitions pro
On 09/12/2010 10:22 PM, JB wrote:
> Marcus D. Leech ripnet.com> writes:
>
>
>> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
>> performance, and I
>>can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
>>
>> Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H
>> Memory
Marcus D. Leech ripnet.com> writes:
>
> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
> performance, and I
>can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
>
> Mobo: GigaByte GA880GMA-UD2H
> Memory: 8Gbyte 1333
> Disk: 1TB Western Digital
>
On 09/12/2010 06:05 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>>
>> On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>>
>>> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
>>> performance, and I
>>> can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
>>>
>> Sounds li
On 9/12/2010 4:05 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>> On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>>
>>> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
>>> performance, and I
>>> can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
>>>
> OK, I"ll chec
>
> On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>
>> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
>> performance, and I
>> can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
>>
> Sounds like a bad disk to me. Run some diagnostic with
On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
> performance, and I
> can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
Sounds like a bad disk to me. Run some diagnostic with smartctl (from
the smar
