RE: SCSI and EIDE
Good point about RAID0.
I know linux's implementation of RAID0 is with the MD program. Do you
know if that's fully functional, and if so, is there a Debian package for
it? How is it used?
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote:
> Given equal drive parameters, the IO throughput (what matters for multi-tasking OSs) for a SCSI-2 system should be better than EIDE. Where SCSI really begins to shine in IO throughput is using disk block striping (RAID 0) using two or more SCSI disks. You can place 7 disks on a single SCSI bus and come no where near saturating the SCSI bus bandwidth with the random IOs that Linux generates. If one SCSI drive gives you 60 IOs/sec of throughput, seven of those drives gives you 420 IOs/sec of throughput. I only wish it was that easy to increase my CPU performance!
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> Al Youngwerth
> alberty@apexxtech.com
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