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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 


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