Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Thread Travis Crook
send it to me, by far the best use for it. LOL! Would it make file access faster > if it was used as a file drive (i.e. I install games, mp3s, etc. on > it instead of the system drive)? What else could I do with it? > > Thanks > > Travis Crook > Visions Beyond depends on it's speed The driv

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Thread Travis Crook
> If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a > software RAID drive. > > RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from > one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the seek time. > > Software RAID is real easy to set up using

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 15 Oct 2002 3:39 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > > If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a > > software RAID drive. > > > > RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read > > from > > > one drive, and some from the other effectively hal

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-15 Thread Travis Crook
>hi, I have a ten GB partition devoted to miscellaneous things. I use it for: >1) saving downloaded rpm's and tarballs >2) a place to rip dvd's and music >3) a place to download music to >4) backing up my computer whenever I need to >The only reason it would make it faster is if the games and mp

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread John Drouhard
hi, I have a ten GB partition devoted to miscellaneous things. I use it for: 1) saving downloaded rpm's and tarballs 2) a place to rip dvd's and music 3) a place to download music to 4) backing up my computer whenever I need to The only reason it would make it faster is if the games and mp3's on

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread Derek Jennings
If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a software RAID drive. RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the seek time. Software RAID is real easy to set up using diskdrake.

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread E T
On Monday 14 October 2002 06:23 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > Hi all, > I have an extra 10GB hard drive and wondered what > would be the best use for it. send it to me, by far the best use for it. Would it make file access faster > if it was used as a file drive (i.e. I install games, mp3s, e

[newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I have an extra 10GB hard drive and wondered what would be the best use for it. Would it make file access faster if it was used as a file drive (i.e. I install games, mp3s, etc. on it instead of the system drive)? What else could I do with it? Thanks Travis Crook Visions Beyond