RE: performance of new machine + old hdd

["Jones, Steven" <sjones08@eds.com>]

one word, dumb

Your going to rely on an old slow worn out drive to hold your OS.

get a hardware raid card and mirror the 2 x 60 gig drives, use 500 meg for
the OS and 1 gig for /var.

regards

thing

-----Original Message-----
From: Hereward Cooper [mailto:coops@zadok.org.uk]
Sent: Friday, 15 November 2002 10:48 
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: performance of new machine + old hdd



I'm planning the design of a file server, with 2 x 60gb drives for files
being servered (setup as a 24 hour delayed mirror), and a seperate
smaller 1-2gb drive for the machine's system files.

What I was wondering was, if the two 60gb drives are new high end IDE
drives, and the machine is 1ghz duron + 256mb ram, how will the
performance of the machine be affected by the 4-5 year old slower HDD,
once it is up and serving across the network?

Thanks,

-- Coops