Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:50:15 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Jay Sern Liew <jay@americanhorizonsbank.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck? Message-ID: <20030118105015.GB783@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1042849118.3e289d5ee4458@webmail.americanhorizonsbank.com> References: <1042849118.3e289d5ee4458@webmail.americanhorizonsbank.com>
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:18:38PM -0600, Jay Sern Liew wrote: > Greetings. > > Does anyone know if a NFS server with a 7200RPM IDE HD will perform > significantly better than a 5400RPM IDE HD over a cable connection? I'm > assuming that the performance will only be noticable iff the NFS client is > close(geographically) to the NFS server, i.e. same LAN since the bottleneck > would be at the network level. If by 'cable' you mean a cable modem providing at best a few Mb/s bandwidth, then I doubt the speed of your disk will have any impact whatsoever. Even the crappiest ATA disk will be able to deliver a few MB/s -- in the worst case that's still an order of magnitude more than you can stuff down your cable modem. On the other hand, on a 100Mb/s LAN you likely will notice the difference, especially if your server has multiple users. > Also, if the 5400RPM IDE HD was RAIDed, would that match an unRAIDed > 7200RPM IDE HD? Thanks in advance. Depends on what sort of RAID it is and what you're doing with it. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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