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How well would a blockland server run from a 200 gig external?
Edman:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on January 11, 2011, 02:40:05 PM ---No it wasn't.
Secondly, Blockland performance hinges on the speed and availability of your RAM. Disk I/O plays a much smaller role and in any case having Blockland have to read/write to external storage is generally going to be slower than having it write to an internal HDD regardless of what ChuckTheArcher seems to think.
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Hmm, anymore opions? Im pretty sure Ephialtes is right though.
MackTheHunter:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on January 11, 2011, 02:40:05 PM ---No it wasn't.
Secondly, Blockland performance hinges on the speed and availability of your RAM. Disk I/O plays a much smaller role and in any case having Blockland have to read/write to external storage is generally going to be slower than having it write to an internal HDD regardless of what ChuckTheArcher seems to think.
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Headshot.
--- Quote from: ChuckTheArcher on January 10, 2011, 06:41:18 PM ---I have a 10 GB ext and BL runs faster on that than my 250 GB internal.
BL was made for portability/compact size.
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Since when was Blockland "designed" for portability? As far as I know the game was designed to be played regularly on any size HDD.
And how would something run faster on a USB external HDD then directly through SATA (or IDE)...?
To put it in short it would probably be better to run it on a regular internal HDD.
Chrono:
--- Quote from: edman2299K on January 11, 2011, 02:52:04 PM ---Hmm, anymore opions? Im pretty sure Ephialtes is right though.
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He is right.
A better processor, better RAM, and a better connection will improve your server's performance. The external drive will just slow it down when it needs to read/write, which isn't very often aside from startup and shutdown.
Edman:
Thanks guys, closing up