[ILUG] Linux SMP on Xeons

[John P. Looney (Kate)]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:47:18AM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> I don't think it's worth striping the queue - if the smallest 10KRPM
> disk you can get is 9GB, that's at least 18GB of queue space, which is
> hard to justify. If you (or rather Colm) can justify it, fire away.

 Out of curiousity, do you think that RAID1+0 with say four high-spec 4GB
IDE drives would be better than over 2 9GB SCSI drives, or is striping a
marginal improvement compared to going SCSI ?

 It's just I noticed there is a nice company selling IDE diskarrays, that
have a SCSI connector out the far end. Seems like a nice idea, if the
performance was suffcient... 

Kate

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