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