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On 3/13/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com> wrote: |
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> I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the |
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> most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up |
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> to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and |
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> 24MB/s on a 7200 200GB IDE Drive) |
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> I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the |
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> disks for better performance? |
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I don't think there is much tuning that can be done, other than |
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putting them in a RAID0 array. SCSI already does DMA, so as long as |
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they are attached to the fastest controller that the drives support, |
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you are probably maxed out on throughput. |
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BTW, 24MB/s on a 7200rpm 200G drive on an IDE channel seems very, very |
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low. That number should be more like 65MB/s. Unless this is actually |
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in a USB enclosure... |
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-Richard |
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