Sudhir wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* JB2
[04-05-08 22:21]: The new hdd is SATA. Will it mess anything up to have an SATA drive and an ide drive on my system like this?
I have five ide drives and three sata drives in this 10.1 system.
I am green with envy :).
It's not hard. Just never throw a drive away until it's dead. Personally, I always use my oldest drive or drives (depending on size and space requirements) for /tmp and swap space. Yes, I know swap SHOULD be a fast device, not some old, device from 2 technology generations ago...but I'll put up with a bit of a speed reduction if it means that I'm NOT beating the hell out of my fastest (i.e. NEWEST) disk drives by putting swap on any of them....because the newer the drive, the more important the data on them. Newest drives filesystem Newest drive(s): /home, /www, and other content created by me or other users of the system /local /opt some things here require more then just an OS re-install to create again. rest of operating system Oldest drive(s): /tmp, swap space How do I do this? Easy. I never buy expensive, huge drives: Why buy a 500 GB drive if I only have 50 GB of data right now?? I can buy a 200 GB drive now for about $45...and by the time I fill that thing up, for another $50 or so, I'll probably get something even bigger than 300 GB. Or, I could spend much more than $95 now to buy the 500GB drive all at once. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org