This can be confusing, partitions, clusters, speed / performance, fragmentation [optimal speed] [cluster size]
Q: OK, this is an issue I would have never thought about until someone mentioned it to me.
how do you allocate disk space (for optimum speed and security are not)?
what I mean is:
how big is your boot partition or system, data, etc?
what file you use (taking into account the recovery and speed only)?
what size clusters do you seek?
where is your swap file and how big is the cluster size and type of file system?
how these things come into play when you raid? (Strip Sets)
also, what is the difference between the backup of a live system versus not?
thanks!
Re:well, i always thought that doing a stripe and putting your OS and programs there would be the best. and for storage, use a single disk.
but after hearing other people, i am confused.
i have heard that putting your OS on a single disk and on its own partition is the best and at the same time put your programs on the stripe set as well as data.
is this wrong?
Re:If you want fast, get a very large number of drives, RAID them together, and set a very small stripe. Bingo, instant fast disks.
You've honestly asked questions of worthy of at least ten threads and haven't done any homework, to boot. What do you think is the best way to allocate disks?
Re:Disks are slow no matter what so not many people really bother trying to gain a little speed by tweaking partitions and such. In theory, a smaller partition will always be faster all other things being equal. And an unsecure file system will be faster than a secure one. Bigger clusters will be faster unless you have very many small files than the waster space makes physically distant seeks neccessary. (and of course there is the wasted space.) Various studies have been done and it turns out that most people have a lot of small files so using big clusters isn't a viable choice. I'm not sure what the effects of cluster size on the page file are. I would speculate having 4K clusters would be useful for the page file because that's what size memory pages are I believe. But I could be easily wrong on that one.
Re:A partial response…..I use a fixed swap file on drive c: using Norton's speed disk which places it on the outer (thus faster) edge of the disks. Speed disk is a faster defrag program too.
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