Hi > > > I'm a strong advocate for SCSI for multi-user systems. GB for GB it's > > > more expensive, so I tend to use slightly older, smaller capacity drives.
> > I'm looking for info, not a flame war! > <jaw drops> ?? Then why are you making a pre-emptive strike? I'm just John <smile> put the jaw back. Everybody (to quote Andrew Lyod Webber) knows a friend who knows someone who thinks it's so, making it indubibly true). Everybody knows SCSI is better than bus-mastering-ide. What I was asking was who has measured. [snip] > ================================================================ > A quick and dirty test via hdparm on my home system yields the following > results: > > 80 GB ATA-100 > > # hdparm -t /dev/hdc > /dev/hdc: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.98 seconds = 32.32 MB/sec > > ---------------------- > > 9.1 GB SCSI Ultra wide (U160) > > # hdparm -t /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.31 seconds = 27.71 MB/sec > > A quick calculation shows that the ATA disk with 8.8 times (i.e., 880%) > the data density yields a throughput improvement of 16%. ------------------------- and mine (4 X-sessions, 1 VNC, 1 Win4Lin ...) [root@tigger w4l-2.4.20]# hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.69 seconds = 37.87 MB/sec James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
