Thanks for the feedback on the Green drives. Good to hear! On Apr 8, 2008, at 09:01, Star wrote:
> Since we're using them primarily as NFS mounts over Gigabit Ethernet, > the bottleneck hasn't been the I/O. They're currently configged in > RAID-10 (software) with ext3 FS's. Yeah, and that's a good strategy for dealing with slow drives - RAID 1 or 10 helps ameliorate their slow seeks. With the ariel density these days I don't think rotation speed is so important anymore for transfer, at least for the average case, but the seek can still hurt. I read earlier that even thought they're billed as "5400-7200 RPM" drives, they're either 5400 or 7200 depending on model. WD seems to obfuscate what's really going on, at least without having dug deep into spec sheets. -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
