On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Wilhelm Farrugia wrote: > Would there be any increased in performance in using two IDE hard disks > with hardware raid for the cache storage instead of two seperated Hard > disks managed by squid ? ( Seek time should remain the same as one hard > disk however thoughput would be increased )
Generally seek times is what you want to optimize for Squid, or more precisely the total amount of seeks/s your system can sustain. RAID generally decreases the amount of seeks/s your system can sustain significantly. Best performance is usually from having separate drives. Regards Henrik
