12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

[goontron]

would using such an old drive for swap be a stupid idea?

[ddscentral]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

It would of course work, but why not just make a swap partition on your main hard drive ?
I don't see a point in using such an old (and big, 5.25) HDD just for swap.

[goontron]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

dedicated I/O

[cheapie]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

You do realize that random access time, not sequential access speed, is what matters for swap, right?

On a related note, why haven't any companies released 5.25" full-height drives for a long time? They would sure make people that need a lot of storage but not a lot of speed very happy. I could see 20TB being stored on one of those...

[goontron]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

so i should use my old 10gb IDE laptop drive then
and since im on the topic, time to see windows vista run from one of them quantum bigfoots

thanks for the help

[Uranium-235]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

if you have enough ram, disable swap

[goontron]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

if you have enough ram, disable swap

if i do that it cannot hibernate tho

[brethin]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

if i do that it cannot hibernate tho

And why is that bad?

[Uranium-235]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

linux creates no seperate hibernate file outside of the swap partition?

[cheapie]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

linux creates no seperate hibernate file outside of the swap partition?

I think Windows is the only OS that uses hibernation files.

[Uranium-235]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

I think Windows is the only OS that uses hibernation files.

I see that as another +1 for windows

[Time2Retire]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

If you are not using a computer, turn it off! I see no reason for hibernation, and always disable it. I have Linux on a SSD, and it is faster in booting than the Windows laptop at work is just coming out of hibernation.

[kc8adu]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

a bigfoot that still works?
even if true its slow by todays standards.

[Topcat]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

I havent seen a working bigfoot in over a decade....even when they worked, they were slow as bejeebus!

[goontron]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

I havent seen a working bigfoot in over a decade....even when they worked, they were slow as bejeebus!

one of the last! it came from the jeffco courthouse in colorado and its barely used so no bad sectors, no bad bearings, spins up fine to! had windows mistake edition on it ,so no wonder it never got used and it also benchmarks fine.

[severach]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

A 12GB flash drive for swap will be better, faster, and cheaper.

[goontron]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

A 12GB flash drive for swap will be better, faster, and cheaper.

i use this for swap right now, i just wanted to find a use for this old quantum beast.

[Uranium-235]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

using flash is a possibility, but since there is soooo much random writing, the write cycles would get used up waaay to fast. Better get an extended warranty on it

in Win7, I had no swap file, 12GB of ram. Thing ran beautifully. I can say that is one of my fav advantages over the winNT5 kernel

[goontron]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

i have 2gb ram and the CF card *had* an extended warranty but it an old card and it up.

[Uranium-235]

Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap

not a CF card, that isn't fast enough flash memory, need an SSD