Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:50 AM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > Note that 60ish MB/sec is very reasonable for a rotational drive. They *can* > technically go faster, but only if you keep the workload almost entirely > sequential. Most filesystems require a fair amount of seeking to write >

RE: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-22 Thread Laurence Perkins
Note that 60ish MB/sec is very reasonable for a rotational drive. They *can* technically go faster, but only if you keep the workload almost entirely sequential. Most filesystems require a fair amount of seeking to write metadata, which slows them down quite a bit. If you're desperate for