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Alon Brodski
Hey!
Experimenting with cluster size won't hurt anything (except for my time).I
can always go back to 4 K.
The question remains the same...the command exist,the "a" switch also
does....for what? just for the sake of being a purely theoretical option?
When I have the money I would upgrade my PC.I can add another 192 MB of RAM
to the total fo 384 MB.
What I want to ask you is what exactly you meant when you said about an
extra physical HD in the system?
Were you talking about RAID-0? But it's not like where you keep your stuff
separetly on 2 HD's.The pricipal of RAID-0 is that it's seen to Windows as
ONE drive.And you win the performance due to the same fact I mentioned
before:
ACCESS TIME in HD's.Which is very slow.Like 1000 times slower vs. RAM and
CPU.So when you have 2 HD's
It's like picking up apples by 2 people vs. 1.Data blocks would be accessed
simultanously in 2 disks by 2 heads.
But it's NOT the same as keeping different type of data on 2 drives....For
that I don't need even RAID or XP....That can be done in Win95 too....Say I
buy another HD...then what?I use one for my data and another for everything
else?
And swap file and apps to keep together or what? May be you can give me an
idea about what you had told me in your last e-mail?
Thanks in advance!
Alon.
Experimenting with cluster size won't hurt anything (except for my time).I
can always go back to 4 K.
The question remains the same...the command exist,the "a" switch also
does....for what? just for the sake of being a purely theoretical option?
When I have the money I would upgrade my PC.I can add another 192 MB of RAM
to the total fo 384 MB.
What I want to ask you is what exactly you meant when you said about an
extra physical HD in the system?
Were you talking about RAID-0? But it's not like where you keep your stuff
separetly on 2 HD's.The pricipal of RAID-0 is that it's seen to Windows as
ONE drive.And you win the performance due to the same fact I mentioned
before:
ACCESS TIME in HD's.Which is very slow.Like 1000 times slower vs. RAM and
CPU.So when you have 2 HD's
It's like picking up apples by 2 people vs. 1.Data blocks would be accessed
simultanously in 2 disks by 2 heads.
But it's NOT the same as keeping different type of data on 2 drives....For
that I don't need even RAID or XP....That can be done in Win95 too....Say I
buy another HD...then what?I use one for my data and another for everything
else?
And swap file and apps to keep together or what? May be you can give me an
idea about what you had told me in your last e-mail?
Thanks in advance!
Alon.