[NBLUG/talk] A Non-linux Hardware Question

[Lincoln Peters]

On Saturday 31 December 2005 02:12, Stephen Cilley wrote:
> Thanks so much for your reply.
> Actually, I wasn't talking about making a seperate
> partition, I was always told that there were distinct
> advantages to having a seperate physical drive for the
> OS.
> Also, in this case I won't have any *nix systems on it
> at all.  It's my gaming machine.
> So do you think there is no advantage to having a
> seperate drive?

I like the partitioning setup I have because it allows me to reinstall the OS 
on the rare occasions I need to do so WITHOUT worrying about it destroying 
my /home partition (I can just tell the installer not to touch it, and 
modify /etc/fstab afterwards if I need to).

Windows doesn't allow you to separate partitions as nicely (everything goes on 
the C: drive my default, no matter how many disks/partitions you have), so 
you might be able to do the same thing, but it would be a lot more difficult.

As for the advantages of having the OS on a separate physical drive, you might 
have an advantage in speed, since you could conceivably read stuff from every 
drive simultaneously (total throughput equalling the speed of the drives 
times the number of drives).  I'm not sure that the speed benefit would be 
significant in most situations, though.


-- 
Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
		-- Alexander Hamilton

/~\  The ASCII Ribbon Campaign
\ /    No HTML/RTF in email
 X     No Word docs in email
/ \  Respect for open standards