Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 tko@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer writes:
> > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA"
> > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the
> > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole.
> >
> > If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to multiple SCSI
> > drives. Period.
> >
>
> Yes, to a point! If one is to go all the way, then make it "wide fast SCSI3"
> drives which spin at 10,000 rpm and use a PCI based RAID SCSI controller with
> _many_ of these GIGAbyte drives! Did anyone mention "myriabucks"? (one
> myriabuck = $10,000) 8-) The newer SCSI controllers will handle up to 15
> drives per cable. 8-) (not to mention the startup current blanking out half
> a city and the resonances sounding like a jet plane taking off 8-) )
> <Just joking!> In all due seriousness, while an IDE drive will never match a
> decent SCSI setup, IDEs are less expensive and "ultra-DMA" IDE drives, IMHO,
> represent the most "bang for the buck" (performance for the money)
Well, when I have some "bucks" to buy more "bang" in the future, I plan to
buy some relatively small SCSI disks, plug them into an el-cheapo NCR SCSI
card and throw in software-RAID0. This is my idea of "a few more bucks, a
lot more bang". I agree on the plane issue, though.
Remco
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