Ham said:
Storage drive + Boot drive ftw.
Not in any fancy-pants raid thing either.
Best of the situation atm.
Not too many pc builders consider the utilization of 2 drives for a system, one of the OS (which is in use a fair bit) and one for u`r projects/gaming etc.
Each time the present day drives get given an instruction, physical heads have to move. The more tasks u give it, like in the otp, the more times the heads are interupted.
Thing is, if u give the drive the ability to use more and more heads, even independant ones, there would need to be the inteligence in the unit to firstly make sure each head aquires 1 file at a time without interuption, to an extent. Then u`r limited to the number of tasks u can give the drive. If u had the ability for 2 simultaneous tasks and 2 jobs to do, it`d stick with them til completion. Moving large files will leave the drive in a trance until both jobs are done, even though being as fast as it can. Whereas present drives will interupt each read, which slows the complete process down, and/but allow u dozens (practically) of reads - or writes I guess. Only practically coz u can reach a stage where u r/w a byte a minute or something which is extreme - well windo$e would die.
In this case, expanding the head capacity of a drive would be less use than having 2 physical units, and tallied with the extra expense new technology always brings, would be financially a bad idea. Just buy another drive.
As we`re presently stuck with the technology we have, users are better off being strategic with what they store - on which drive (not partition), and maybe in some cases thinking "do I buy a new drive with 50g more capacity to store my mpegs to replace my present one ? - or should I be smart and just use a new drive to work in parallel with the one I have" - particularly if there`s heavy use involved.
Cut down on head movement is the key. Cut down on interuptions. The technologists maybe need to think less about drive speeds and more about a new method of read/write.
doomie22 said:
tempoary space on a hard drive...write it to a bit of the hard drive not being used, then when you've finished what your doing, move it, a bit like defraging...
or ofcorse, they could just integrate 2 hard drives into one, and move data from one to the other, like l2 cache on an athlon 64 x2 ...where you have 2 different storage area's and it moves from one to the other, depending whats happening
If the drive itself did this, it`d be an interesting adventure, just leave the OS out of it maybe.
