Hard drive RPM

[Rob]

Derek Ragona wrote:
> Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed and 
> performance.  Most of these utilities also give you the drive model and 
> serial number as well.  Look for a self-booting version that is a cd-rom 
> ISO, these usually run FreeDOS to easily access the hardware from a 
> cd-rom boot image.

I'd suggest the "Ultimate Boot CD" here:  http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
It's a bootable ISO image with all the major disk mfgr's diags and other 
good stuff, ready to go.

   -RW