Good point about RAID0. I know linux's implementation of RAID0 is with the MD program. Do you know if that's fully functional, and if so, is there a Debian package for it? How is it used?
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: > Given equal drive parameters, the IO throughput (what matters for > multi-tasking OSs) for a SCSI-2 system should be better than EIDE. Where SCSI > really begins to shine in IO throughput is using disk block striping (RAID 0) > using two or more SCSI disks. You can place 7 disks on a single SCSI bus and > come no where near saturating the SCSI bus bandwidth with the random IOs that > Linux generates. If one SCSI drive gives you 60 IOs/sec of throughput, seven > of those drives gives you 420 IOs/sec of throughput. I only wish it was that > easy to increase my CPU performance! > > Al Youngwerth > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >