Is this going to be a vast improvement?
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/sit...a0466460e4f0a0
Cheers
Toby
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Is this going to be a vast improvement?
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/sit...a0466460e4f0a0
Cheers
Toby
not this drive.
its got a dreadful seek time - 8.5 ms. and its only 7200rpm.
scsi is 3.5 ms seek time.
it makes not the sligthest difference that its 'sata II', our application is seek/rotational latency time limited not data rate limited.
What does help is a good raid controller-
2 normal ata drives on a xserve raid gives very good performance, because the raid controller is very good
For an indication of which single drives work well:
choose the "SR File Server Benchmark 2002" menu option at:
http://www.storagereview.com/php/ben...bench_sort.php
the reason why you choose 'file server benchmarks' is that this application is dependant on the number of transactions per second a drive can do. Not the data transfer rate.