1. RE: disk speed
Kat wrote:
> Has anyone tested to see how fast they can read a harddisk on winXX,
> using
> Eu? Or any other windoze version? I just had to clean 40,000 files
> (166megs)
> off another disk, and zip them, making access times even slower. It's a
> 2Gig
> partition, and Tiggr is filling it every 6 months, and has been for over
> 2 years
> now. So the question becomes, when will i hit the wall of too much data,
> that
> Eu takes all day to search the 1/2 million files? Any suggestions,
> besides a
> massive pre-index of "normal" search parms? This problem has dogged me
> for years, and the only good idea i had for it 8 years ago was one
> 528meg
> harddrive per motherbd, in a programmable file server rack. Given that
> cpu
> and ide buss speeds are up, hd access times are down, and i can't get
> new
> 528meg hds anymore, what's a archiver supposed to do?
>
> I am supposed to be adding another 1,000 files, about 8Kbytes size each,
>
> asap.
>
> Kat
>
>
though i have not really making use of the feature yet, i went to using
hot swap hard drive bays. after having a system crash, then 2 months
later with both the main drive and backup drive in the same case being
stolen.
i now have one in the main case and one on the usb ports so i can take
it to another computer when necessary( to help others backup).
or you can go to cartridge drives.
i always liked the idea of removable drives because then i can put
different o.s. or setups without having to always erase first.
just my thoughts
rudy
lotterywars
2. RE: disk speed
On 2 Dec 2002, at 22:29, rudy toews wrote:
>
>
> Kat wrote:
> > Has anyone tested to see how fast they can read a harddisk on winXX,
> > using
> > Eu? Or any other windoze version? I just had to clean 40,000 files
> > (166megs)
> > off another disk, and zip them, making access times even slower. It's a
> > 2Gig
> > partition, and Tiggr is filling it every 6 months, and has been for over 2
> > years now. So the question becomes, when will i hit the wall of too much
> > data,
> > that Eu takes all day to search the 1/2 million files? Any suggestions,
> > besides a massive pre-index of "normal" search parms? This problem has
> > dogged
> > me for years, and the only good idea i had for it 8 years ago was one 528meg
> > harddrive per motherbd, in a programmable file server rack. Given that cpu
> > and
> > ide buss speeds are up, hd access times are down, and i can't get new 528meg
> > hds anymore, what's a archiver supposed to do?
> >
> > I am supposed to be adding another 1,000 files, about 8Kbytes size each,
> >
> > asap.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> >
> though i have not really making use of the feature yet, i went to using
> hot swap hard drive bays. after having a system crash, then 2 months
> later with both the main drive and backup drive in the same case being
> stolen.
> i now have one in the main case and one on the usb ports so i can take
> it to another computer when necessary( to help others backup).
>
> or you can go to cartridge drives.
>
> i always liked the idea of removable drives because then i can put
> different o.s. or setups without having to always erase first.
>
> just my thoughts
How does that impact speed of access, other than it may take a while to get
the hd plugged in if i am asleep when it's needed?
Kat
