Performance and the hard disk size

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 21 June 2013, Paul Smith sent:
> They are all MS Windows users, and they say that using
> a disk larger than 1 T as a boot disk, the performance will be
> affected. Maybe, that is true with MS Windows and not with Fedora. 

Well, there's this side of that situation:

Have you seen Windows complain at boot up that you hadn't shut down
properly, and it needs to check the drive?  (Of course you did shut down
properly, *it* screwed up doing so.)  Then you have the fun of waiting
for it to scan through one hell of a huge drive.  More so if your
computer likes to regularly screw up.

Then there's drive fragmentation.  Windows still seems to be horrid for
that.  I'd hate to have to wait for a 2 TB drive to defrag.  Even if I
wasn't watching the box, waiting for it to finish, because I wanted to
use it, but left it overnight - it'd be at it all night.

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