Ok, the Hitachi 3TB drive went in without too much trouble. The gparted
utility handled everything from creating the GPT to creating the ext4
file system. I used rsync to copy 1.5T worth of data without a hitch.
SBS 7.6 scan times are slower yet on this drive with the ext4 file
system:
Code:
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Total Tracks: 55,624
Total Albums: 2,873
Total Artists: 594
Total Genres: 38
Total Playing Time: 4014:42:19
Discovering files (5558 of 5558) Complete 00:00:02
Scanning new files (4676 of 4676) Complete 00:41:41
Discovering playlists (1 of 1) Complete 00:00:00
Pre-caching Artwork (2974 of 2974) Complete 00:02:23
PostScan: (6 of 7) Complete 00:00:00
The server has finished scanning your music collection.
Total Time: 00:44:06 (Sunday, May 1, 2011 / 5:43 PM)
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I'm wondering to what extent this is due to the fact that this is a
5,400rpm drive vs. the Seagate ST32000542AS which is a 5,900rpm drive.
That doesn't explain the scan times I'm seeing, though.
Again, with the Seagate ST32000542AS formatted as ntfs and using
ntfs-3g, full wipedb scan times were clocking in at around 26 minutes.
The same model drive, formatted as ext2, clocked in at 30 minutes, a 15%
increase. With the Hitachi drive using ext4, the increase in scan time
over ext2 is 47% and the increase in scan time over ntfs is 69%.
So, while there are benefits to using ext4 as a file system, speed is
clearly not one of them.
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