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[rsync,I/O] How is the hardware handling multiple I/O jobs? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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All drives are HDDs. I am backing up drive A on host A to drive B on host B and drive C on host C. The hosts are connected via a LAN with a star topology. I started two consecutive rsync processes without considering whether that would be too taxing for drive A. Is that even a thing? Like, mechanically. Is the needle needlessly (sorry) jumping back and forth more than what's good for it? Maybe I'm being too empathetic towards the machine. Please enlighten me. :3

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago

Modern storage systems and protocols have device performance and longevity in mind, too.

A lot of really smart people have thought long and hard about the problems and limitations of the components that computers run on and how they communicate, and the longevity of the components is a testament to that collective effort.

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