RE: Partitioning for Speed
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> > I would have thought that for cached drives this becomes a
> moot point
> > as such a high percentage of hits come from cache.
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> remember that most disks have 2MB of disk cache.. new drives
> are 8MB cache
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> - the 2MB disk cache will be flooded and not used at all...
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True, but this does only depend on how much data is being read.
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> -- yeah... i've been looking to see how to make disks faster
> and get the 100MB/sec disk transfers ... or even faster
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Surely the way forward for throughput is load balanced, mirrored, raid
arrays with fast drives and large caches on duplexed raid controllers.
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