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Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE

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On 04/12/2016 10:06 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> philo <philo@privacy.net> writes:
>
>> Looks like a defective hard drive, run the manufacturer's diagnostic.
>
> The problematic bigfile -> HD copies proceed quickly.  It appears to
> be a memory usage problem during writes.
>


OK, it was just a guess on my part.



>> Due to the small size of the drive I'm guessing that when you said "new"
>> you simply meant "new to the machine" and not an actual new drive?
>
> Right.  A used 150G. I have a new 500G SATA coming.  But I'm not above
> reverting to an 80G IDE drive if t he prblem becomes annoying enough.


GOOD
  V      (just realized there is ^ > <  but no down arrow)
>
>  From Stephenson's The System of the World, Saturn (Peter Hoxton) &
> Daniel Waterhouse in Hockley in the Hole:
>
>      "Mechanic since I was a lad, clock-maker since I came to my
>      senses," said Saturn.  "The piece of information you are wanting,
>      Doctor, is this: this here is an old Hooke balance-spring watch,
>      this is. When the Master made it, why, it might've been the best
>      time-piece ever fashioned by human hands. But now there's a score
>      of proper horologists round Clerkenwell who can make ones that'll
>      keep better time. Technology ages, dunnit"?
>
>      Daniel pursed his lips to keep from laughing at the spectacle of
>      this new, five-guinea word, Technology, emerging from that head.
>
>      "It ages faster'n we do. It can be difficult for a bloke to keep
>      up."
>
>      "Is that your story, Saturn? You could not keep up, and so you
>      went bad"?
>
>      "I grew weary of keeping up, Doctor. That is my story, if you must
>      know. I grew weary of transitory knowledge, and decided to seek
>      knowledge of a more aeternal nature."
>

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HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-11 02:47 -0300
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2016-04-11 09:14 +0200
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2016-04-11 16:54 +0000
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-11 07:22 +0000
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-11 04:19 -0500
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-13 00:06 -0300
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-13 13:26 -0500
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-11 11:30 +0200
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2016-04-11 13:17 +0000
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-11 15:43 +0000
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-12 23:42 -0300
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-04-13 03:29 +0000
        Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-15 03:08 -0300

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