Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:14:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com> Cc: dwilde1@ibm.net, don@partsnow.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980424101203.10386A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <9804241908.aa27782@s3.synx.com>
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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Remy NONNENMACHER wrote: > This means they used stripping and only the beginning of disks (where > the media rate is the highest). Hard to beat without a well tuned ccd > and less than 2 SCSI controllers. (note they also used 10K rpm disks). Better off using the hardware RAID0 in a DPT PM334UW. It also has 64MB of write-back cache so, it can re-order i/o to be more efficient. Also, using only tiny bit of each hard drive improves drive level caching. Most drives have only a 1MB cache. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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