Jim Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The boss just told me to find a faster solution to the setup at one of our
>branches and I need your help.
>We have an Intel 550 with 4 4 gig drives supporting about 80 users. Each
>user will have about 100 files open and will be making multiple disk access
>every second. We now need to double the load. Just a faster cpu or even
>multiple cpus would not seem to help a lot if the disks are the bottleneck.
>Does anyone have this kind of operation or know where I might contact a
>vendor that could provide a "reasonable" solution?
If the drives in question are IDE/EIDE, moving to SCSI will help quite a
bit. There are 7,200rpm and 10,000rpm drives available in SCSI. Beyond
that you might need to look at splitting up the filesystems onto separate
disks and possibly SCSI cards or looking at some type of high-performance
hardware RAID-5 array that uses multiple channels. Not cheap, but it
should be faster. At some point the server's network card could become the
bottleneck though.
-Eric
Eric Sisler
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Westminster Public Library
Westminster, CO, USA
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