On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 19:33, Scott Dier wrote: > > difference would be with better drives? > > I would go with hardware raid and stripe some nice 10krpm or 15krpm > drives. (or raid5, if you need the redundancy.. isn't raid5 faster than > single disk, but not as fast as striping, right?) > My understanding is that "it depends", when it comes to reads. If the data that you're looking for is in the hardware cache on any of the disks, it becomes available very quickly. With raid5, there's more hardware disk cache space available than with striping, all other things being equal. The Raid How-To seems to suggest that the performance advantages of striping may not be nearly as much as they are thought to be. -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. ------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020110/4549268e/attachment.pgp