[NBLUG/talk] A Non-linux Hardware Question

[Stephen Cilley]

Thanks for the tip.  About how large should the blocks
be, in your estimation?
Thanks,
Stephen

--- Chris Palmer <chris at eff.org> wrote:

> Stephen Cilley writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> It depends entirely on the demands your application
> puts on the storage
> system. There is no single, magic answer.
> 
> In a game system, I imagine disk access is generally
> sequential and not
> often interrupted (you are single-tasking, and just
> reading large hunks
> of game data). Without thinking about it any
> further, I'd guess you want
> a disk with the greatest throughput and the lowest
> seek times you can
> get. (Even the highest throughput drive will not
> saturate your bus,
> though.) The WD Caviar you referred to earlier looks
> like a reasonable
> choice along these lines. Also it might help to set
> a large block size
> on your filesystem, since you will be concerned
> about performance in
> reading large data objects. (This will result in
> some wasted space for
> small files, but on a 320 GB disk, it probably won't
> affect you any time
> soon.)
> 
> 
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