Is it slower to copy two files at the same time than to copy one after the other?
Question:Which is faster, copying everything at once or one thing at a time? ?? ??(7 answers) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? My boss was saying it takes longer to…
Why use multiple partitions on Linux installations?
Question: Does it really perform better than a single partitioned installation? Why? Answer: Even if the performance increase is non-existent, there are several reasons to split up your installation: If…
Why do HDDs suffer from performance loss due to capacity decrease?
Question: Today I was looking over my HDD datasheet(a Western Digital 500GB WD5000BPKT) and I noticed that for its entire family, the “Performance” row “Host to/from drive (sustained)” is nominally…
What happens when windows runs out of drive letters?
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? Possible Duplicate: ?What if the hard disk is partitioned into more than 26 sections in Windows? ? What happens when windows runs out of drive…
Is it possible to copy all Windows 7 files from one HD to another and boot from the new HD?
Question: Well, the hard-drive on my laptop died (it was displaying “SMART failure prediction — Hard-disk Drive dailure might be imminant). So I took it out and hooked it up…
Can I install a laptop 2.5″ SATA drive on a desktop without any adapters?
Question: My girlfriend’s computer has had the disk so I’m going to reinstall the operating system. However, before I do this I need to get all the data onto another…
How do I clone a USB stick including partitions?
Question: I have several USB flash drives, and one of them has an installation of Ubuntu with several partitions. I want to make the other USB drives exactly the same…
4K sectors transition: Why are hard drives moving to 4096 byte sectors, vs. 512 byte sectors?
Question: I’ve noticed that some Western Digital hard drives are now sporting 4K sectors, that is, the sectors are larger: 4096 bytes vs. the long-standing standard of 512 bytes. ?So:…
btrfs: HUGE metadata allocated
Question: I have a 256GB SSD disk on which I converted my ext4 root FS to btrfs. I erased the ext4 backup subvolume, enabled compression and defragmented recursively to enable…
how long to zero a drive with dd?
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? How long will it take to zero fill 1TB (using dd dev/zero)? I’m actually doing two 500G drive simultaneously if it matters. Answer: It depends…