[ltp] Dying HD

[Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 16:55 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:

> Last month I noticed I was running low on space and went out and bought a
> Fujitsu 120GB drive as a replacement.  I must have got lucky because this
> model gives four times the performance on sequential access; where I was
> getting about 10MB per second with the OEM Hitachi 40G, the Fujitsu
> sustains just under 40GB per second.

That sounds about normal for a 5400 RPM 120GB laptop drive.  I get
similar performance from the 120MB Seagate drive I put into my X31.

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