Strategies after buying new hard drive

[Teddy Mills]

It is subjective.
What category would you place the Raptor SATA drives in?
Enterprise or Near-Enterprise?

OT: Is there raptor fossils around Southern Ontario or GTA? If not, why 
did they call them the Toronto Raptors?



Andrew Hammond wrote:

> cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
>
>>>> So, if you have a 4 GB drive and some spanky new drive, then one idea
>>>> you might consider is putting swap, /tmp, on the 4 GB, and have the 
>>>> more
>>>> bulky occasional stuff on the other disk. It all depends on what 
>>>> you're
>>>> trying to do with this system.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> And how slow would that make /tmp and swap?  4GB drives are terribly
>>> slow by todays drive speeds.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Indeed.  It's likely that your newer disk will be faster than the older
>> ones.
>>
>> Unless it's a 140GB drive (right, Drew? ;-))..
>>
>
> 4GB commodity disk? That's gotta be about 6 years old, right? 
> Guaranteed any new disk (except laptop gear, which I know almost 
> nothing about) will seek faster. It's almost guaranteed to die in the 
> next year or two anyway. Personally, I'd throw the 4GB in the trash. 
> Or crack it open and make some ninja frisbees.
>
> If you're dead set on keeping it, you could use it for a log 
> partition, or something that gets mostly sequential writes without 
> seeing too much performance degradation. You really want to learn 
> about SMART before you move any data onto that disk though.
>
> If you haven't picked your new drive, I'd suggest a WD Raptor 
> (assuming that you've got good power and cooling in your chassis, 
> obviously). Last I checked (about 7 months ago), they had the best 
> seek times. Which is not a big surprise since they based on mid-range 
> SCSI disks with a SATA interface. They're also 10kRPM disks, so 
> sequential reads and writes can really get some value out of that SATA 
> interface. They aren't particularly cheap however.
>
> Drew
>
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