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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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