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- From: mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas)
- Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. : ( help....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.211906.17254@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec14.212902.1390@rei.com> <1992Dec16.102254.4521@cs.joensuu.fi> <1992Dec16.171516.2631@pcx.ncd.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:19:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.171516.2631@pcx.ncd.com> chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel) writes:
- >I've used Stacker (2.0 I think) for about 6 months will 0 problems. No
- >lost files, not corrupted files. I've got a 200 meg drive with a 1
- >non-stacked drive and five 25 meg stacked volumes (which ends up being
- >about 50 megs after stacker). The partitioning was kind of stupid, but
- >I didn't partition it (partitioned by a relative who set the system up
- >for me) and it works, so I leave it alone.
-
- Actually, the partitioning does make sense, from a speed point of view.
- If you have, say, a 200MB drive and you leave it all as one partition, then
- when you run an app, the heads may have to travel from one side of the hard
- drive to the other. When you partition, every time you switch to a different
- drive, the heads move to that location, then everything on that drive is
- near the park position. If you do heavy usage on that drive, then, you aren't
- thrashing your heads back and forth as much as you would be if everything
- was scattered all over the disk.
- This is especially important for programs like Windows, where you would
- want all the apps and temporary files in the same general area on your
- hard drive, because of the amount of swapping it doe. The easiest way to
- group programs together is to make a partition and put all the software on
- that logical drive.
- It's a lot easy than trying to use a defragmenter to do it, anyway. :)
-
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