On 06/21/2013 04:16 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Does the size of the hard disk affect Fedora's performance? > > I am looking for a 2 T disk to replace my current disk, but some > people are warning me about performance; they say I should buy a disk > of at most 1 T. Are they correct? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > I have a 2TB disk in this system and I haven't seen any speed issues. I used Fedora's defaults to partition it: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 3.9G 5.9M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 3.9G 11M 3.9G 1% /run tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda3 50G 9.4G 40G 20% / tmpfs 3.9G 872K 3.9G 1% /tmp /dev/sda2 477M 118M 334M 27% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 288K 200M 1% /boot/efi /dev/sda5 1.8T 246G 1.5T 15% /home Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) Device Model: ST2000DM001-9YN164 -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
