Hello,
At 22:14 13/05/2013, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Just to resurrect this thread and let you know what happened.
>
>I tried rsyncing the contents of my system partition to a new
>partition on the same disk and surprisingly that gave a significant
>speed-up, around 10-20% at a guess. This is with ext4 fs. Not sure why
>that would be, but perhaps different placement on the platter meant
>less head movement, or defragmentation if that affects ext4?
>
>THEN I splashed out £40 at eBuyer for a 60GB OCZ SSD. I put the old
>system disk into an external caddy on USB with all my data, so the SSD
>is just for the system. Wow! Start-up times for the computer and for
>applications are fantastic (about 45 seconds from power on to using
>firefox, of which the first 10s or so are for POST and grub, compared
>with over 2 minutes total before). The CPU is now maxed out (all four
>cores) and the disk activity indicator hardly flickers.
OCZ SSDs are notorious for failing early.
I would keep monitoring it at regular intervals.
Martin N
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