one word, dumb Your going to rely on an old slow worn out drive to hold your OS.
get a hardware raid card and mirror the 2 x 60 gig drives, use 500 meg for the OS and 1 gig for /var. regards thing -----Original Message----- From: Hereward Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 November 2002 10:48 To: [email protected] Subject: performance of new machine + old hdd I'm planning the design of a file server, with 2 x 60gb drives for files being servered (setup as a 24 hour delayed mirror), and a seperate smaller 1-2gb drive for the machine's system files. What I was wondering was, if the two 60gb drives are new high end IDE drives, and the machine is 1ghz duron + 256mb ram, how will the performance of the machine be affected by the 4-5 year old slower HDD, once it is up and serving across the network? Thanks, -- Coops
