On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, William Coulter wrote:
> --- steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 11 September 2006 15:53, William Coulter wrote:
>>> I am using it for an everyday usage. Standard home os, but I do try and
>>> keep lots of ISOs handy. I have found that it runs smoothly from the hard
>>> drive and not from a cd.
>>
>> Eh, what runs?
> Burnning ISO from the hard drive rather than a cd. I have only one cd
> burnner and I don't want to keep moving that drive from PC to PC.
I don't think that's related to the filesystem. At CD writing rates, you're
really not stressing the filesystem at all. FWIW, I get over 50 MB/s
between IDE channels. 1x = audio CD rate = 2 x 2 x 44.1 kB/s = 176.4 kB/s,
so 50 MB/s is the rough equivalent of a 290x drive. The fastest CD-R drive
I've heard of is 50+/-2x, so you're not pushing it there.
Your poor performance when reading from a CD is probably due to poor seek
time on CD drives (dozens of ms, as opposed to <10 ms on HDs) coupled with
relatively low throughput. Add in slow spin-up if it spins down, which it
probably doesn't.
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