On Saturday 07 February 2009 2:00 pm, Morgan Tørvolt wrote:
> The calculations are easy. A disk with 100MB/s read speed and 10ms
> access time will give you 1MB per 10ms read time. If you read 1MB at a
> time on random spots on the disk, you will use 10ms per read, and 10ms
> on average for moving
>> 1. best speed of disks 7200 rpm.
>
> Better 15k SAS/scsi, to serve a lot of stream the seek time is really an
> important feature.
Not necessarily.
> Load it with RAM too, which is cheap nowadays and serve
> as "seek buffer" very well (on linux systems).
This is of course true. As much as the
On Thursday 05 February 2009, 05:17:19, neville bradbury wrote:
> 1. best speed of disks 7200 rpm.
Better 15k SAS/scsi, to serve a lot of stream the seek time is really an
important feature. Load it with RAM too, which is cheap nowadays and serve
as "seek buffer" very well (on linux systems).
