Enjoying my new Squeezebox and I'm in the process of organizing almost a TB of music on hard drives, mostly flacs of live music I have downloaded or recorded myself http://db.etree.org/bephillips and have started flac-ing my CD collection.
My question is: How much free space do I really need to leave on a HD before performance takes a hit FOR THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION? I have heard that in general, one should leave about 20% free space, but as I understand it, this is in a scenario where users are creating and deleting files in the course of using the drive. I on the other hand lay down a bunch of data, and then mostly only read it. Leaving 60 GB unused on a 300 GB drive seems wasteful if it is not neccessary for this particular application. Anyone out there with an authoritative knowlege of HD performance issues able to answer this? Thanks for your help. Want some fresh tunes? Go to http://bigbluetarp.com for pointers to yummy free flacs of live music recorded by my crew and other fun stuff. -- bephillips ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21598 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
