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>> Main thing |
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>> that speeds up the AMD box is using 320MB scsi's |
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>> for near-term storage. They are hugely faster than |
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>> [S]ATA or IDE used on most equipment these days. |
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> what R/W speeds can you expect? |
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Operations on SCSI run 2-3 times faster for large-ish |
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file transfers (say 1MB or more). For example GIMP |
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runs without noticeable pauses on most operations with |
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my 2GHz opteron using the SCSI's as storage and scratch |
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space; on the same machine with the SATA's it bogs down |
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to the point of annoyance, with things like saves taking |
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seconds to complete. The only difference being which |
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drives I'm using for tiles and data. |
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Bonnie gets upset validating the scsi space on this |
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box since it has 8GB of core and I don't have 16GB |
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free on the device so I can't give you any specific |
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numbers. |
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Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St. |
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Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 |
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lembark@×××××××.com +1 888 359 3508 |
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