5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-17 Thread Jay Sern Liew
Greetings. Does anyone know if a NFS server with a 7200RPM IDE HD will perform significantly better than a 5400RPM IDE HD over a cable connection? I'm assuming that the performance will only be noticable iff the NFS client is close(geographically) to the NFS server, i.e. same LAN sinc

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:18:38PM -0600, Jay Sern Liew wrote: > Greetings. > > Does anyone know if a NFS server with a 7200RPM IDE HD will perform > significantly better than a 5400RPM IDE HD over a cable connection? I'm > assuming that the performance will only be noticable iff the NFS

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
On 1/18/2003 2:50 AM, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:18:38PM -0600, Jay Sern Liew wrote: Does anyone know if a NFS server with a 7200RPM IDE HD will perform significantly better than a 5400RPM IDE HD over a cable connection? I'm assuming that the performance will only be not

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread soralx
> If by 'cable' you mean a cable modem providing at best a few Mb/s > bandwidth, then I doubt the speed of your disk will have any impact > whatsoever. Even the crappiest ATA disk will be able to deliver a few > MB/s -- in the worst case that's still an order of magnitude more than you > can stuff

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Jay Sern Liew
Quoting Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If by 'cable' you mean a cable modem providing at best a few Mb/s > bandwidth, then I doubt the speed of your disk will have any impact > whatsoever. Even the crappiest ATA disk will be able to deliver a few > MB/s -- in the worst case that's sti

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Lars Eggert wrote: > > If by 'cable' you mean a cable modem providing at best a few Mb/s > > bandwidth, then I doubt the speed of your disk will have any impact > > whatsoever. Even the crappiest ATA disk will be able to deliver a few > > MB/s -- in the worst case that's still an order of magnitud

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
On 1/18/2003 2:27 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: Lars Eggert wrote: I've tried NFS mounting ISI servers at home over PPTP over a cable modem connection, and it's painfully slow - much slower than the bandwidth of the cable pipe. NFS isn't well tuned for high-RTT environments (in my case, 20ms). The