using disks SATA against SCSI in tomcat 5.5.9 cluster servers

2005-08-26 Thread Acácio Furtado Costa
Respected friends of the list, I am specifying Cluster nodes (hosts) to use 
with tomcat 5.5.9 with an apache server as dispatcher.  
  
In the specification of the disks I have doubts because the new disks SATA has 
great performance and speed and with cost comparative minor to the SCSI Disks.  
  
Considering applications WEB, where the WAR files are loaded in memory and 
having enough memory (2 Gbytes) so that there is not use of virtual memory 
(windows XP), would there be some advantage to use disks SCSI?  or can we wait 
for the same performance considering disks sata 7200 rpm against disks scsi of 
7200 rpm?  
  
Could anybody explain to myself this doubts?
 
Regards
 

Acacio Furtado Costa
Pesquisa e Tecnologia

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RE: using disks SATA against SCSI in tomcat 5.5.9 cluster servers

2005-08-26 Thread Peter Crowther
 From: Acácio Furtado Costa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 In the specification of the disks I have doubts because the 
 new disks SATA has great performance and speed and with cost 
 comparative minor to the SCSI Disks.  
   
 Considering applications WEB, where the WAR files are loaded 
 in memory and having enough memory (2 Gbytes) so that there 
 is not use of virtual memory (windows XP), would there be 
 some advantage to use disks SCSI?  or can we wait for the 
 same performance considering disks sata 7200 rpm against 
 disks scsi of 7200 rpm?  
   
 Could anybody explain to myself this doubts?

You will only really be able to answer this by benchmarking your application 
and finding out how much of the time it spends accessing the disk.

SCSI disks and controllers typically have two other advantages over SATA disks 
and controllers: faster average seek times, and more write cache.  However, if 
the performance under SATA is good enough, then you will not want to spend 
the extra for SCSI.

I support a number of live applications deployed on servers using mirrored SATA 
disks, as they are good enough for the clients.

- Peter

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