Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/06/17 14:57 (GMT-0400) Matt Archer apparently typed:
The more disk drives you have, the less I/O wait time, resulting in significant improvements in performance, especially with interactive processes.
The desktop machine I'm on right now has SIX disk drives in it.
What planet does the fuel that provides your electricity come from?
Titan.
Isn't your planet suffering from global warming?
NO! In fact, in the last year, the Earth has cooled off more than the cumulative warming of the preceding 100 years. What rock have you been hiding under all year?
Do we really need that mega power supply and all those heat generators in a box just to realize some hard to detect improvement in perceived performance? Puters & storage are so much faster now than they used to be that it's really gluttonous to have the attitude that you deserve that little bit extra on an ordinary desktop system.
I pay for my electricity. I earned the money for it -- it's my ... NOT YOUR... decision on how I spend it. Or do you want me dictating how you spend YOUR money?
And with your filesystems spread over a bunch of small drives, they last a LONG time.
I guess your systems don't run 365/24/7.
Yes, it does.
Even my cheap WD and no-brand IDE drives last for 5+ years... and by the time one fails, all I'm using it for is /tmp or swap.
Some people have good HD luck. The rest of us have to buy new HDs the month after the warranties expire, if they last that long, even without packing a bunch of them together in a hot box like so many cigarettes polluting the planet.
As I said... I spread my filesystems across several small disks. This GREATLY reduces disk-head wear... not proportionately, but in fact, geometrically. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org