I didn't attack anyone. My comment was directed at the thread in as a whole and not Hussam. And right now I'm replying to THEfog because he is the last reply but this post is directed at MAD_BEAST's comments and to a lesser extent the peo who share his opinion. Now this is going to be the last I comment on this subject and I'm going to try and and phrase it more eloquently then my first attempt.
Now I'm not sure what you mean by axis, but I'm going to hazard guess you mean the actuator arm (which I think the pivot point can be called an axis). Assuming this is right my statement still hold true. The drive heads write data from the outside of the platter toward the centre. This explains why my 32g partition is many times faster then my 400g partition. Which brings me to your point. For arguments sake I listen to you and move my swap file to the 2nd partition (situation 1). Right now my 2nd partition is 90% full and well defragmented. Moving the the swapfile now would most likely put it at the very end of the drive closest to the spindle. Since my games are on the OS partition this would maximize the amount of travel the head would have to do, thus maximizing head latency and probably also rotational latencies. Now assuming I had moved the swapfile while the partition was empty (situation 2) this would have still put me past the end of the OS partition (which is still not full as of this writing) so while I am better off then situation 1 it will never be the same as sharing the OS partition. All of this assumes you have one hard drive (ie: most laptops, which also would have these crappy graphics cards necessitating the super human effort of the bravo team). If you have more then one hard drive go ahead a move it. If you have IDE drives make sure your not moving it to another drive on the same cable because you will still hose your performance. AS I said the process of using a small OS partition as the front of the drive is called "short stroking". Now there are different ways to do it, if you have consumer hardware just making a small first partition is easy. Those of you who use hitach enterprise hardware also have the niagara utility. In practice they both accomplish the same thing but have key differences. Just making a small partition allows you to use the rest of the drive, while a vendor utility actually limit the usable portion of the drive. If you use a setup like mine (2 partitions) you have to keep in mind that anytime you access the second partition you will incur a performance penalty. But since I use mine as an archive this is a penalty worth paying for the use of the 400g+ space. On Feb 7, 2:50 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > Nah its all right DanielPK, don't think of it again, I should have changed > my post to be less hostile so yeah don't worry about it :) > > THEfog > > On 07/02/2010 5:19 PM, "DanielPK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > sorry if i miss-understood the subject...THEfog my bad man :) its just > that you had and opinion and i had mine, and i should've respected > it.....MAD_BEAST....you irresponsible bastard, without you we're > nothing :)) > > On Feb 7, 12:22 pm, MAD_BEAST <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dont worry guys! life is too short f... > > -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
