Expand your knowledge a little. It might hurt at first, but you'll be better for it. Just because it doesn't exist in your world, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You base all your anecdotes on single users, if you had experience in multiple user environments, you'd have an idea of what we are talking about. The drive is exactly the bottleneck in cases that I was speaking of.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:50 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 31, 2009, at 1:54 PM, mike wrote: > >> John brought it up near the start of the thread. Speed was the only >> reason >> we used RAID at the shop I was at, anyone who uses it for backup is an >> idiot. >> > > The speed advantage went away when the drive's magnetic domains got turned > 90-degrees. With bits packed so tightly the data rates went way up and the > speed advantage of RAID went poof. I won't bother to argue about RAID > serving up bits faster. I will argue that it does not matter. A modern drive > is a fast as the job requires. It is not worth any effort to go faster. The > drive is not the bottleneck. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
