On 8/20/05, Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-lad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > > > Noah Roberts wrote: > > > > > Using an external hard drive seems to help some. > > > > Did you look at hdparm, esp for the internal drive? > > More specifically, make sure you are using a driver specific to > your machines PCI/disk controller (if one is available) rather > than the generic one. I was using the generic one, but would that affect the USB2 drive? How does a standard IDE drive in one of those USB2 enclosures compare in throughput to an internal mini-ide at 5200rpm? I'm also using ext3. My previous desktop used reiserfs. Things I read on the internet say that ext3 should be performing better but maybe I should have chosen a different fs?
