Subj : Re: Janet Jackson is a vector for windows xp systems
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Aug 22 2022 16:57:27

  Re: Re: Janet Jackson is a vector for windows xp systems
  By: Spectre to Nightfox on Sun Aug 21 2022 09:30 pm

 Sp> Traditionally, I tend to put fairly small and old drives in the desktop
 Sp> PC's and add relatively slow large drives to the NAS or file server
 Sp> storage. Usually on the theory that the network speed will be the
 Sp> determining speed factor not the HD's. 7200's usually use more power too,
 Sp> while that never used to be a problem, it kinda is now... I've cut back a
 Sp> lot of my active hardware and tried to select less power hungry storage.

Makes sense.  I suppose I've often erred on the side of speed (even for large drives).  I have a PC that I use as a media server (among other things) using Plex Media Server.  Lately, I've been fairly regularly watching TV shows with it with someone else using Plex's "Watch Together" feature.  I have a rotating HDD in that PC for movies & TV shows, but to help ensure it can support streaming with more than one person (in case they happen to be watching something else from my Plex server while I'm also watching it), I wanted to help ensure it can handle that.

For my main desktop PC, one thign I've been doing lately is video transcoding, and often I'll re-mux audio tracks into videos, which requires a lot of disk I/O.  When I built my current desktop PC in 2019, initially I put a 5400RPM drive in it, thinking I was going to mainly use it for storage, but last year I decided to replace it with a larger drive, and also a 7200RPM drive because I noticed with the 5400RPM drive, large I/O operations were taking a bit longer than I'd expect.  The difference in speed is noticeable with a 7200RPM drive.

Nightfox
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