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RE: disk speed

• Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Dec 02, 2002
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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