My two cents: even though there are differences between SAS and SATA, they are not so huge. >From this point of view I guess that a fast Solid State Hard Disk would make the difference on the I/O.
2014-08-07 10:06 GMT+02:00 Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it>: > On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 18:15 -0400, Eduardo Menendez wrote: > > > Is it critical to use SAS disks (compared to SATA) for good > > performance of Quantum ESPRESSO? > > I guess it depends upon the amount of I/O you plan to do > > Paolo > > -- > Paolo Giannozzi, Dept. Chemistry&Physics&Environment, > Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy > Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222 > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Carlo Nervi carlo.nervi at unito.it Tel:+39 0116707507/8 Fax: +39 0116707855 - Dipartimento di Chimica, via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Torino, Italy. http://lem.ch.unito.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://pwscf.org/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20140807/dcbf807a/attachment.html
