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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
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> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
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>> again this is probably something in the engineering/quality department 
>> - factors would include whether the disk is being read or written etc.
>>
> 
> Why so?  The heads don't touch the disk surfaces and whether the heads 
> thrash more in read or write depends on the fragmentation of the data, 
> the availability of contiguous free space, and the pre-seek logic of the 
> operating system and the disk controller.
> 
...this is what I should have said!

it was a point I was trying to convey....with regard to video
editing...these are big files and I did fill the disk running
video capture as Root! This is ok, if you can reboot of a different
partition or disk but otherwise you're stuffed!

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