SRCDS hard drive use

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hellrazer333 Wrote:What sort of strain does running a dedicated CS:S server put on the hard drive. Does anybody know what the break down is of time spent reading vs writing? Does a server primarily just read the hard drive or is it constantly writing as well?

There's very little I/O to both directions, I guess. That's because it seems that the server reads all the stuff during a map change or in restart. The I/O writes come from log files and auto-recorded SourceTV files (if you've got them enabled). Also the server writes players' spray tags to the download/ directory, but that's like about 2 kilobytes every fifteen minutes at the best.

Why do you care? Are you setting up some experimental CS:S server on a DAT tape or what?