Re: how many disk

From: Bertold Kolics <bertold@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:52:18 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

>There is much debate over whether a RAID array or multiple independent
>disks with seperate cache_dir entries will give better performance. I have
>seen data supporting both sides of that argument...
Yes, that's right. We used 3 independent disks for a while, but we changed
to an external hardware RAID disk array (which has 9 disks inside, has its
own OS and 16 MB memory cache) and it give much better performance.

Cheers,
Bertold
Received on Thu Feb 05 1998 - 03:15:51 MST

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