From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5AA813800E for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 445DC21C017; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FDA21C028 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:01:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekc4 with SMTP id c4so647606eek.40 for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:01:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=oj9xN+DDMmD9LaoYiaGpPI5DBbJu6Xf5eeN485k9f/4=; b=pPVZZf4TL/k4xebS+TkXRdRFi+VM5pptyRD0Wu8upQsuecPX3M5vlEL7WCIOBtYisH NPNkL8BL3Ve61myujxJWmn/N1cXbTKCzGmPVH3B/XWlcQslgjvGbC2t+T7KXb/9ysaq8 R9pIMPbBhxEcvG+W7CaOO4kPflTCGddHtnoBoDf+kElkdiCoLaxe3N53F2A1yNmbsrTb d+sFKiu6Bgvz7gVb+R9jdewdzRblA4Vk/C2Vz+/5vToBbeyzNR9jyWGIBmsEOp8Kn/gX Knn0duPqEp6GrXfrb1s5iEnvmZ9/6OS0fpUPFJY7iTnzcxSYC1bC6Rd9WIKgLOt2CGKW ZpDQ== Received: by 10.14.2.5 with SMTP id 5mr12630733eee.33.1344254499358; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u47sm14631544eeo.9.2012.08.06.05.01.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:01:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:01:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.3.8-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> <20120806120133.16659430@digimed.co.uk> <501FA99F.7070202@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <501FA99F.7070202@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart15818411.W2fx5SIYKf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208061302.08359.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c4c424ed-b334-409a-b963-50e9d29d6b93 X-Archives-Hash: b2c5cb25349cd5efcc425f9db9f957b6 --nextPart15818411.W2fx5SIYKf Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 06 Aug 2012 12:25:19 Dale wrote: > What I have on there is videos. When I tried to compress some and test, > it was basically the same size. I guess videos don't compress to much? Not without transcoding the streams into more space efficient formats - but= =20 you could well suffer from loss of quality (lossy formats and digital=20 generation losses). So YMMV. > While I am at it. You should have a good answer for this one. What is > a good file system for this sort of thing? I been using ext4 but it > sure does use a lot of space for its overhead. As far as files go, most > will likely be videos. I do have other files but when compared to the > number of videos, they are close to nothing. The files system for the > current 1Tb, spread across two drives with LVM, uses about 75Gbs for the > file system thingy. That's a pretty good bit to me. I may lose more > than 200Gbs on this 3Tb drive. O_O That sounds like a lot! I'm waiting to see what others comment and=20 benchmarks. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart15818411.W2fx5SIYKf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlAfskAACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaZuQCdEecbbvPGI8XuhX3dc0G/ZC+A I9IAnRLJRplSz4MLdifV6GS6I50VfA2Y =qv7L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart15818411.W2fx5SIYKf--