| From: | Adam Szymczak |
| Date: | 16 May 2000 at 03:16:16 |
| Subject: | Re: Block size |
On 14-May-00, Don Cox wrote:
> Increasing the "addbuffers" settings in startup-sequence also speeds up
> the drive, but if you have big blocks this can use up a lot of RAM. Each
> buffer is the size of a block.
This may sound trivial, but for the sake of clarity, using "addbuffers" does
NOT 'speed up the drive'. That sounds like you are making the hard drive
faster when in reality your not. Lets use the correct terminology: using
"addbuffers" typically improves disk access speeds.
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