Dorian Breh
Veteran
Are there any performance related issues pertaining to external drives that are 100% full? Do they slow down or show errors?
Do you have to leave empty space on external hard drives or can you fill them up completely?
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StretfordRed
Afro-European
If it’s a spinning HDD yes. SSD you good
Both SSD and HDD slow as they are filled to max capacity.
With both, it has to do with the mechanisms which are used to speed writes becoming less and less useful as more blocks are used
With both, it has to do with the mechanisms which are used to speed writes becoming less and less useful as more blocks are used
Dorian Breh
Veteran
What if I was gonna fill it up with Blu Ray rips and only use it as a read-only device?
Reads will be fine either way. In that case, HDDs are definitely more cost effective though
i was gonna dork out and tell you about your drive being used as a scratch disk to help out your ram but since it was an external, i assumed it was just reading.
programs like photoshop let you allocate HD space for temp memory writes. but that is neither here nor there in your case so go forth and fill your drives with content, breh.
Dorian Breh
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Atsym Sknyfs
Superstar
In theory yes .. the more on the drive the slower it will become. thats because it has more to search through to find your data. thats plus the fact your file data isnt stored consecutively, thats why we defragment .. to get all the pieces of a file closer together.
back to earlier.. the more data the longer it takes to search .. example. you can find the 2 of hearts much faster if all you have is the hearts in your hand versus all red cards, an entire deck or even worse multiple decks.
then you're still gonna be limited to the speed of your connection (usb2 or 3 or lightning or etc)
but .. you probably cant detect the delay anyway so fill 'er up
but i also leave a little space so files can be moved around easier.
back to earlier.. the more data the longer it takes to search .. example. you can find the 2 of hearts much faster if all you have is the hearts in your hand versus all red cards, an entire deck or even worse multiple decks.
then you're still gonna be limited to the speed of your connection (usb2 or 3 or lightning or etc)
but .. you probably cant detect the delay anyway so fill 'er up
but i also leave a little space so files can be moved around easier.
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KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
Treat hard drives like condoms brehs
Unless you are completely indifferent about them slowing down, I would try to leave 10 to 20 prevent open so the drive has room for defragmenting. Fragmentation will slow the drive down worse than anything, and cannot defragment without scratch space to move stuff around in.