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Subject: Re: Should an 80 gig Harddrive be partitioned for Chessbase usage?

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 03:29:45 11/09/02

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On November 09, 2002 at 05:52:21, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On November 09, 2002 at 02:45:56, Ernst Walet wrote:
>
>>Hi Brian, this is what I did.
>>
>>I created a 10 Gig partition at the beginning of the drive, and loaded the
>>EGTB's and later on the swapfile there.  In this manner they never get
>>fragmented (swap file set to custom size) and the seek times through the EGTB's
>>are minimised.  I created a second partition at the other 70 Gig, made it active
>>and installed OS and programs at it.
>>
>>Ernst.
>
>that's a great idea! Clever strategy to avoid fragmentation!

Well maybe framentation isn't the good word after all, they're not getting
scattered around and thereby you minimize the seek times.  As transfer speed is
the fastes at the beginning of the drive, I prefer to have the swap file there
as well.

Ernst.



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