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? Isn't your planet suffering from global warming? 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.
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.
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. -- "Where were you when I laid the earth's foudation?" Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org