On Wednesday 18 June 2008 06:06, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 02:04, Matt Archer wrote:
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As I said... I spread my filesystems across several small disks. This GREATLY reduces disk-head wear... not proportionately, but in fact, geometrically.
There is no such thing as disk head wear. Disk heads only touch the driven when spun down. Or when there's a head crash.
Rather: "... only touch the disk surface when it's spun down." I don't think this is so with newer hard drives - I believe most now "park" the heads off to the side. Performance-wise, one would be much better off with one fat SATA hdd vs. many small disks. Not to mention the power savings... - Adam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org