Comment 87 for bug 119730

Can I just add my cry for help on this issue; my wife's tired old PC running ATA/IDE drives is a gazzillion time faster than my gee whizz 3 X 1T SATA drive machine running dual core. A bit of delving after stumpbling across this thread seems to have revealed all. HDD throughput as appalling and CPU usage off the scale. As the prev. poster says, why isn't this escalated to "High"

ASUS M2N-VM DV MOBO.

Ubuntu Intrepid.