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I have i5 6th gen processor with 8gb ram 4tb secondary hard disk and 500gb primary hard disk. The 4tb hard disk is formated with ntfs. My target is to write huge amount of files on the disk. The disk is SATA 7200RPM have to test compresssion algorithm on the same written files. The files which will be written on the disk are if smaller size compressed witj zlib the range will be around 12-20KB. I wrote a bash script to make 500000 copies of the same for test purpose but found that 7-8 files per se ond were being written in that directory which is 100kB/s while the speed mentiones is much higher. I want to achieve like 100 files per second. I don't know what to do. Please suggest me to achieve the highest write speed.
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please suggest so the disk can be used with linux as well as windows which format should i use – M A SIDDIQUI – 2017-08-28T17:33:47.650
I think [though I'm not 100% certain] the only [appropriate] file system they can both use natively would be FAT32. You need to be aware that Windows itself is notoriously slow at file moves, though. – Tetsujin – 2017-08-28T17:40:55.000
Buy an SSD if you want more IOPS than a 7K2 disk can achieve. – Eugen Rieck – 2017-08-28T17:44:32.353
@Tetsujin Fat32 has limitations that a file can not be greater than 4gb while in my case there will be files larger than that. – M A SIDDIQUI – 2017-08-28T17:53:04.147
@Eugen yes ssd is better option but i am not able to utilize the speed of sata. It is is good if i can utilize the full speed and then want more in that case ssd will be better – M A SIDDIQUI – 2017-08-28T17:54:38.153
compressing files over 4GB is very probably not worth the effort – Tetsujin – 2017-08-28T17:54:39.383
This has nothing to do with SATA. It is about ca. 300 IOPS, which a 7K2 mechanical disk simply can't give you. – Eugen Rieck – 2017-08-28T18:24:42.537