Re: [squid-users] How important is harddisk performance?

[Ken Peng]

Hi there.

I'm planning to build a new dedicated Squid-box, with amd64 and 4 gigs

of RAM, with two cache_dir's on two separate harddisks and Squid-3

doing

application level striping, all servicing around 6k users. Will two
recent IDE disks of 7200 rpm suffice, or I'm better off getting two
15000 rpm SCSI disks on a dedicated controller board?

15000 rpm SCSI is surely much better than 7200 rpm IDE's.
We use 15K rpm of SAS disks, that're more better I may thought.