On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Orlando Andico wrote: > Ok enough enough enough. > > Sustained burst performance figures are WORTHLESS. WORTHLESS. WORTHLESS. > Nobody uses or needs 100MB/sec sustained transfer rate. > > What is important is SEEKS PER SECOND. > > Now consider: 4x ATA100 drives on an ATA100 controller. Each drive can do > about 100 I/O's per second (1000ms, 10ms random access speed). POP QUIZ: > running RAID0, how many seeks per second can you do with 4 ATA100 drives? > > Is it 400? NO. > It's 100. Because only one IDE drive can be active on the chain.
Hmmm... So what is this? "3ware StorSwitch Architecture" http://www.3ware.com/products/storswitch.asp regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.com _ 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]
