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Former Member
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For the past two days, my trusty Windows 98 System Monitor has shown that FA@H is reading and writing 10 to 30 bytes almost constantly. I worry that this constant yet slight disk activity could wear out our hard drives.
Could all this I/O be handled in the 512 meg ram that FA@H requires, using disk I/O in big chunks much less often? Thanks in advance for your clarification. |
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Former Member
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For the past two days, my trusty Windows 98 System Monitor has shown that FA@H is reading and writing 10 to 30 bytes almost constantly. I worry that this constant yet slight disk activity could wear out our hard drives. Could all this I/O be handled in the 512 meg ram that FA@H requires, using disk I/O in big chunks much less often? Thanks in advance for your clarification. great question, i guess the answer is presumably obvious that hard drive is likely to fail earlier, hmmm using the ram as available and diff chunk size? great thoughts, i await answers from clever techy people who know way more than me, again good point raised IMHO |
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Michael Milan
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I've read somewhere that all modern HDs are supposedly designed to withstand at least 50 years of constant use!! But older HDs die after only a year or two of constant use. So whether you should be worried depends on how old your HD is.
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That wont kill your drive, trust me, the only drives I have seen die from usage were eally old, and got abused like during moving. Your drive likes to spin, thats what it does, it aint happy unless its spinning and shaking. Its designed to serve up data, let be live and be happy! The biggest killer on your drive will be heat and fragmention, if you want a really good investment, get a motherborad with SATA raid 0, it sends data fast and the search time is like SCSI, so there is not alot of drive pounding. Also with raid 0, you set your cluster size to 4 KB, which means that you wont read 512 worth os space for jsut 100kb read. ANd todays drives last forever, besides, your drive is always reading even when your pc is idle, Microshaft windows needs data randonmly jsut stay online
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Your drive likes to spin, thats what it does, it aint happy unless its spinning and shaking. Its designed to serve up data, let be live and be happy!  LOL Neil12345, I like your perspective on the subject. Reminds me of one of my exes. BTW, greetings from a fellow +er!Scotchula |
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