Introduction: Hacks #40-57
No matter how fast your CPU or memory are, disk drives and
peripherals are the biggest bottlenecks to system performance. After
you spend all day tweaking and revving up your CPU and memory,
you're rewarded with the same old sluggish disk
drives, which undermine any other performance-improving hacks. In
this chapter, we'll cover some easy and often free
tune-ups to get your disks living up to your
system's demands and your expectations of
reliability by making informed partitioning choices and using the
tools necessary to prepare a hard drive for file storage.
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