>Hi there,
>
>our newsserver is running off of two U160 SCSI disks. They are only 70 GB
>together and since we recently switched over to a full Cidera feed, this
>only lasts for 12 hours or so as far as binary groups are concerned
>(ouch). Because we just built the news server a couple of months ago, I
>will not get any more money allowed from my boss to get some more SCSI
>disks. So I am thinking of much cheaper but fast IDE drivers (like the IBM
>Deskstar running ATA66 or ATA100). My concern is: Will this slow things
>down a lot?
>
>We don't have a lot of readers currently and I doubt we will have more
>than 100 concurent readers in the near future. However, we plan on feeding
>some other newsservers.
>
>And while we are at it (size wise...): How much diskspace for the
>multipart file completion makes sense at such a large feed (roughly
>120-180 GB day, while filtering out about 60% of it)? Should we place it
>on the SCSI disks or IDE disks (in case we use IDE)? We currently have
>assigned 5 GB for the system and the tellnews status reports this:
>
>Parts 2807:309 1209mb, In 1015328 427795mb, Complete 674159 287406mb, 66% 67%,
>Drop 139255mb, Err 135 Rotated 25 minutes ago, Upto 9 1.00 38
>
>Whatever that means?
2-3 gig is probably all you need for your part buffer. It doesn't seem to
help much
making it heaps bigger.
Use the fast scsi drives for your:
History, xover, work, and part buffer
Use IDE for additional spool areas, and then I think it will probably work
fine, ide
is fundamentally sluggish as it doesn't allow multiple queued operations
and seems to impact cpu but maybe thats my imagination. For the spool
storage that shouldn't matter. I haven't tried a mix like this myself but
I suspect you will find it works quite well, let us know how it goes :-)
ChrisP.
