Update I cloned my old conventional 160 GB hard drive onto a new Intel X25-M SSD using gparted. In doing so, the new partitions ended up being ext3 instead of ext4. The performance improvement is dramatic. It boots super fast. Even Evolution, which became a lethargic dog with the upgrade to F13, is snappy. Its amazing how fast Firefox and Open Office Writer open. Life is good. I have not done any disk optimizations whatsoever. Whatever the defaults are, that is what I am running. I did not perform any before and after tests, but I still have my old harddrive as a backup. I could always swap it in and run some tests if they are needed. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines