On Sat, 18 May 2002, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: .. > > the way the high-performance IDE RAID people do it is, one DEDICATED IDE > > CONTROLLER PER HARD DRIVE. If you can do this, then IDE offers much the > > same multiprocessing performance and I/O's per second as SCSI. > > But isn't it that IDE raid would still be able to help in the > performance in RAID 0 configuration because it would reduce seektimes?
If what you're after is sheer linear disk performance, then yes, RAID0 with IDE would help (because a single ATA66 interface can conceivably drive 3 or 4 drives before saturating). BUT: most of us do NOT need linear performance, we need "I/O's per second" (for things like mail servers, databases..) and in that case the non-interleaving nature of IDE will kill the cat. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
