Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

[Mick]

On Monday 06 Aug 2012 12:25:19 Dale wrote:

> What I have on there is videos.  When I tried to compress some and test,
> it was basically the same size.  I guess videos don't compress to much?

Not without transcoding the streams into more space efficient formats - but 
you could well suffer from loss of quality (lossy formats and digital 
generation losses).  So YMMV.


> While I am at it.  You should have a good answer for this one.  What is
> a good file system for this sort of thing?  I been using ext4 but it
> sure does use a lot of space for its overhead.  As far as files go, most
> will likely be videos.  I do have other files but when compared to the
> number of videos, they are close to nothing.  The files system for the
> current 1Tb, spread across two drives with LVM, uses about 75Gbs for the
> file system thingy.  That's a pretty good bit to me.  I may lose more
> than 200Gbs on this 3Tb drive.  O_O

That sounds like a lot!  I'm waiting to see what others comment and 
benchmarks.
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Regards,
Mick