On 3/13/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the > most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up > to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and > 24MB/s on a 7200 200GB IDE Drive) > > I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the > disks for better performance?
I don't think there is much tuning that can be done, other than putting them in a RAID0 array. SCSI already does DMA, so as long as they are attached to the fastest controller that the drives support, you are probably maxed out on throughput. BTW, 24MB/s on a 7200rpm 200G drive on an IDE channel seems very, very low. That number should be more like 65MB/s. Unless this is actually in a USB enclosure... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
