I tend to avoid the use of find (1) because I never really "internalized" the syntax) and (2) on the assumption that it hits the disk "harder" than locate.
I mean, updatedb runs once a day (on my systems) and I assume (I know) that its database is mostly cached somewhere, but I don't really know how it finds new files. Is there any validity to the idea that find is harder on disks (hits them more often / more widely) than locate?
