Simple? Hardware upgrade.

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Wed Jan 14 07:28:56 PST 2009


on 14/01/2009 16:34 Jorge Biquez said the following:
> b) If is possible to "clone" the same installation to a new faster disk
> (like a sata 250GB). I know I can install a /.x version and for sure
> will work but here the idea is to have things running as usual without
> problems. This installation is very stable and secure and has been with
> us for years.... we would like to keep it working for more years.... :=)

Somewhat tangential - are you sure that a new faster disk would really
perform faster on that old PIII system? Even if you use an expansion
card (which itself might require updates to kernel, ata driver at
least), PCI bus speed will stay limited to the same old value.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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