Reply to post: Re: Why doesn't Win10 support multiple drives better

Some Windows 10 Anniversary Update: SSD freeze

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Re: Why doesn't Win10 support multiple drives better

Again, you're trying to do things the wrong way. Links are not the supported way to relocate user folders. Repeat. Maybe you'll understand you're trying to do it stubbornly in the wrong way. It doesn't matter it's a system command, even "format" is a system command and you don't use it to relocate folders. You have a very limited understanding of "system administration", you learnt a few tricks some time ago, and want to apply them everywhere, even in situations when they just create trouble. It's the lazy, incompetent, outdated sysadmin way. Found it several times, on Windows and Linux, and had to clean up the mess.

In Windows you can move the swap file if you like - you may just need a small one left on C: exactly for crash dumps.

You can also spread it on multiple volumes. You can also set a max size, so it won't fill the boot volume. It looks your knowledge of Windows is limited and outdated.

Just pointing out there are far less need to do it today. And who said it isn't used? For the matter anonymous memory mapped files go to the swap file as well, to backup memory when needed. Just, for performance reason you need to minimize its use, especially before SSDs.

Who said, again, there's no need to partition? Just desktop users with a single disk usually can't plan well partition size in advance. Servers are fairly more controlled and it is far easier to plan for partition sizes.

My Oracle databases are in the hundred of terabytes and petabyte range, the largest ones. RAC on Dell blade servers and fibre channel SANs, on EMC storage. Highly optimized for a workload with intensive writes. Quite tricky to optimize, especially before SSDs.

The smaller ones used iSCSI over Ethernet, which is not that bad anyway and costs less, especially when NICs and switches has special support.

I won't put database data files not only on the same volume, but on the same physical disks as the OS. Partitioning a single spinning disk may just mean more head movements and worse seek times. Nor I would put database log files on the same physical disk with data.

And, again, you can setup your system as you like with Windows too. You do differently than Linux, and achieve exactly the same. Or you may stubbornly try the wrong way and fire into your own feet, just because of prejudices.

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