Re: Performance and the hard disk size

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Am 22.06.2013 14:18, schrieb Tim:
> Allegedly, on or about 21 June 2013, Paul Smith sent:
>> They are all MS Windows users, and they say that using
>> a disk larger than 1 T as a boot disk, the performance will be
>> affected. Maybe, that is true with MS Windows and not with Fedora. 
> 
> Have you seen Windows complain at boot up that you hadn't shut down
> properly, and it needs to check the drive?  (Of course you did shut down
> properly, *it* screwed up doing so.)  Then you have the fun of waiting
> for it to scan through one hell of a huge drive.  More so if your
> computer likes to regularly screw up.

which does typically not happen

> Then there's drive fragmentation.  Windows still seems to be horrid for
> that.  I'd hate to have to wait for a 2 TB drive to defrag.  Even if I
> wasn't watching the box, waiting for it to finish, because I wanted to
> use it, but left it overnight - it'd be at it all night

which has nothing to do with *a disk* larger than 1 TB
it's more depending on the partitions you create

in context of Linux it doe snot matter at all



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