> Howdy Crew, > > I am about to buy a new hard disk for my FreeBSD work station. > Since FreeBSD's ATA drivers implement Tagged Command Queuing and IBM make > the only ATA disks that implement tagged command queuing ( ie since the 60GXP family >), > an IBM 40GB 120GXP "looks like" the best solution. > > However, my question is: > > Do the benifits from a having a larger disk cache such as the "WD 40GB 7200RPM w/8MB >Cache" > has, outweigh the benefits of Tagged Command Queuing ? As far as I know big cashe helps for one I/O thread, and Tagged Queuing helps more in multiple I/O threads.
The first series of Tagged Queuing drive was far before 60GXP - it was DPTA. Then DLTA (I used this hardly, some of them was slightly buggy) -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
