Tuesday, January 3, 2006, 7:53pm
I got a new harddrive for my laptop, a 7200 RPM drive as opposed to the 4200 RPM drive that was in there. Much faster now:
brian@alpha:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hda Password: /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 124 MB in 3.05 seconds = 40.72 MB/sec brian@alpha:~$