On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Matt Archer
John Andersen wrote:
Yup. In fact, disks are so cheap now that when I order a new machine I just get the smallest disk offered, and remove it immediately and replace it with a separately purchased compatible drive of the size I really want.
Why would you *replace* it? The more disk drives you have, the less I/O wait time, resulting in significant improvements in performance, especially with interactive processes.
So it remains pristine and un-infected with the dread Linux disease and thereby removing any possibility of warranty disclaimer by the manufacturers. As an aside, most of my workstations now days are high end laptops where more than one disk is not an option. But even on my desktop/floortop workstations I remove the drive so I don't have to fight boot sequence issues with the existing drive. For the record, I don't see and significant improvement in performance from multiple disks, not on my servers and not on my workstations. Even on a busy machine. Perhaps this is because I always size the memory to avoid swap as much as possible. Swap: 3614616k total, 136k used, 3614480k free. Uptime 119 days. (damn power outages). -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org