--- Jason Joines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mainly I was just curious as to whether the fact that the drive > was > on a separate contorller would override the fact that it is a slower > ATA-33 drive. > > I do have that many drives requiring that many controllers. The > motherboard has 2 ATA-100 controllers and 2 ATA-133/RAID controllers. > > In addition, there are two add on ATA-100/RAID cards with four > controllers each. > > The machine is being used to do backups over a couple of 100 Mbit > > networks using multiple NICs.. I have a bunch of 80 GB ATA/100 drives > > in removable drive carriers. The two adaptec cards are used to keep 2 > > four drive raid 5 arrays. Weekly and Monthly backups are written to > this. The onboard raid is used for the OS, and daily backups. It is > configured as a mirrored raid with a small partition for the OS and > the > rest for the dailies. I have 1 GB of DDR RAM. > > We used IDE because it is much less expensive than SCSI and much > better performance than tape. > > I ended up with an extra bay in the case and unused spots on the > controllers so I just thought it might help to throw an extra drive in > > dedicated to swap.
But do you even need it? Why waste a drive on more swap space if you're not going to need it? What does 'free' look like after the box has been up for a few days? Unless you're actually using (up all) the swap you have, adding more won't have any efffect whatsoever. If all this box is used for is backup, then i can't see how its going to be memory intensive, as most of the load is on disk I/O, not memory usage. BTW, there's a reason why IDE is so much cheaper than SCSI, and its not just to make people rich. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
