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On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 08:39 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: |
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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. |
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Wouldn't Raid5 be a better choice? Although there is the added Parity |
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which does give some fault tolerance. |
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Actually, since you brought it up, I've got 4 drives, 1 I'm using for |
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the OS. The other 3, I'm undecided. |
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It's either. |
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3x18GB = 54GB in a LVM2 array (/storage) (JBOD I guess) |
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or |
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3x18GB Raid 0 = 54GB but lose _all_ data if any disk fails. |
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Not an option I suppose. |
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> 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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Sigh.. That's still low comparatively compared to the newer generation |
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of drives (esp SATA which give up to 80-100MB/s transfers) |
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> BTW, 24MB/s on a 7200rpm 200G drive on an IDE channel seems very, very |
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> low. |
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It is isn't it? Then again, it's also attached to a Pentium II system. |
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(I was comparing apples to apples) |
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Pentium II 300Mhz w/ SCSI disks - 18MB/s (18GB Scsi 7200rpm) |
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Pentium II 300Mhz w/ IDE disks - 24MB/s (200GB IDE 7200rpm) |
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> That number should be more like 65MB/s. Unless this is actually |
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> in a USB enclosure... |
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Nope. |
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Ow Mun Heng |
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