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On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Max Siegieda wrote: > Well, gaming is a big part of it but there are plenty of things that will > benefit from increased speed and reduced access times. Every application I > use would be faster to start especially if it were fragmented or needing to > access files on various parts of the drive. It's the access times combined > with the speeds that I want, plus the longevity of the drives. OK. I was just curious. Incidentally, fragmentation, while not impossible is really not much of an issue with modern filesystems - like UFS which was designed 30 years ago... Linues ext3 is fine too for the most part. (just don't let it get too full) Partitioning and disk layout is a dying art these days. Maybe it should die out with solid state devices, who knows. I still split my boxes into several partitions though. The biggest speedup you get going to flash is zero seek time. I moved one of my development/build boxes over to a 4GB flash IDE drive, and it boots quicker and kernel compiles are also faster: bob:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 3.9G 3.2G 490M 87% / /dev/shm 300M 0 300M 0% /build Still - if you come down to Paignton on Saturday I'll being my box o random RAM sticks - maybe someone can identify them... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html