I fill it up, but before you get it to more than about 80% full, defrag
it as many times as it takes to get to zero fragments. Then as you add
the remaining files, defrag often to keep fragmentation to zero. Once
the drive is full, it essentially becomes a read-only drive and you
don't have to d
jonheal Wrote:
> My point is that considering your music drive read-only is tantamount to
> saying that you aren't going to be adding any more music -- ever. Unless
> you have a mechanism in place that adds your new music to a second drive
> (that also contains all of you previous music), and the
jimdibb Wrote:
> It applies to any hard drive that's full. Or, the better description is
> a
> WORM hard drive. Write once, read many. You can fill that type of
> device
> right to the top.
>
> On 3/1/06, jonheal forums.slimdevices.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > A read-only drive implies that the
It applies to any hard drive that's full. Or, the better description is a WORM hard drive. Write once, read many. You can fill that type of device right to the top.On 3/1/06,
jonheal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A read-only drive implies that the user will never again add any newmusic. Who does t
A read-only drive implies that the user will never again add any new
music. Who does that apply to?
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>
>>
>> Only an issue for Microsoft filesystems.
>>
>
> Correction: only an issue for certain filesystems, and even then only
> when they are heavily written/rewritten. Not the case the OP described.
>
Isn't NTFS their latest and greatest? Certainly gets badly fragged in my
experience. Anyway, I
>
> Only an issue for Microsoft filesystems.
>
Correction: only an issue for certain filesystems, and even then only
when they are heavily written/rewritten. Not the case the OP described.
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> radish Wrote:
>> None, fill it as tight as you want. Read performance is not affected in
>> the slightest by available space. Personally when speccing drives I
>> leave a chunk available to grow into, as running out before you have a
>> chance to buy a new drive is a PITA, but having the drive
radish Wrote:
> None, fill it as tight as you want. Read performance is not affected in
> the slightest by available space. Personally when speccing drives I
> leave a chunk available to grow into, as running out before you have a
> chance to buy a new drive is a PITA, but having the drive at 100
None, fill it as tight as you want. Read performance is not affected in
the slightest by available space. Personally when speccing drives I
leave a chunk available to grow into, as running out before you have a
chance to buy a new drive is a PITA, but having the drive at 100% as a
steady state is
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