[ltp] Re: New hard disk for X31?

[Jiang Qian]

> Hello,
> 
> A follow-up on my earlier posting...
> 
> I've now installed and used the 100G Hitachi drive.  The sound level, from all
> that I can hear, is the same as the 60G drive that was OEM on my T42p.  While
> I can hear disk access, it's not loud, and it's unperceptible in my office with
> the typical ambient noise of a few cooling fans on various printers, etc.
> 
> If anything, access seems faster than the older drive.  I don't know if that's
> because it's a higher data density or that I upgraded my OS (Suse 9.3 to 10.1).
Could you please post your result from the command
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
as root? Or if you have the time and patient, install bonnie++ and run a 
benchmark(no command line option)? Thanks a lot!
If possible a comparison of these stats with the old hard drive would be 
great, too.
Jiang