However, I would never manage to do that with my 10gb hard disk and I really don't really feel like it anyway. I've fought with that heap of junk of a computer too much already...
Must be a pretty slow heap of junk, too - a 10 gigger probably is around 10 years old. Now if there is one hardware component that better be the fastest you can get, it's the harddrive. You can literally
feel the difference.
Maybe you can find a Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 (18 or 36 gigger; LW version, not FC!) and a matching U160 HA and cable for little money. The 15K.3 was a sweet drive a few years ago, possibly the most civilized 15k rpm drive ever. The larger ones did get kinda noisy but the 1 or maybe 2 platter models should be fine. Good ventilation required though, even the 18 gigger draws 9 W idle.
I moved my Cheetah 36ES' (possibly the nicest 10k SCSI desktop drive ever) and U2W HAs to secondary machines years ago, going all IDE, but while a comparatively modern 7200 rpm drive like my Deskstar T7K250 tends to be superior for general use (and is less noisy to boot), the older 10k stuff doesn't seem to bog down as much when multiple processes are thrashing the harddrive at the same time (which makes sense, given that SCSI drives are typically optimized for server use).
