On Thursday 28 October 2004 01:10 am, Liam Marshall wrote: > For next year, or next term if I am lucky, I am thinking of upgrading > the hard drives. Currently using an old IBM SCSI drive (9gb) for /root > and a Seagate SCSI (18 gb and 5400 rpm) for /home /opt and /swap. > > Would 11000, or 15000 rpm SCSI drives show any kind of performance > increase? Even if they don't I would probably still upgrade them > eventually to gain more storage anyway, but it would be nice to justify > the bigger drive(s) by saying that the increased rpm would make a > noticable improvement in performance > If you could get another 2 x 18GB SCSI drive and a raid controller then you could do a JBOD stripe across the three. That would really help your speed. Increasing all three to 15K RPM drives would be even better. I used to manufacture video recording systems and found that the increase is impressive. We were able to provide 4 x 12 MB/s (Yes MegaBytes) streams off of a CMD 5500 Raid (4 Hosts and 5 Drive channels, 128MB RAM) controller for playback of source and commercials for on-air systems with RAID 4. Still in operation 6 years later at KESQ in Palm Springs.
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