Re: disk speed

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On 2 Dec 2002, at 16:07, C. K. Lester 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?
> 
> Is this something that an EDS database could handle for you?

No. There's 10gigs of raw data, before it's crosslinked. I don't think i wanna 
put 10gigs of sdram into the puter for EDS to load it into.

> > I am supposed to be adding another 1,000 files, about 8Kbytes size each,
> > asap.
> 
> Sounds like something that should be in a database!

Well, yeas, that was the point of the question. How to access that much 
data quickly. Indexing it all only lets the puter know what it knows, it does 
not let it know what it doesn't know. Knowing what it knows is an infinitely 
small percentage of what it doesn't know, so the problem is still rather 
massive. Given my finances, the data must stay on cost-effective harddrives, 
not RAM.

Kat

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