Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:10:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Hummers <phummers@iname.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <FreeBSD-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bragging rights Message-ID: <20050429200748.Y5280-100000@emachine.bsd> In-Reply-To: <4272AD64.3040001@chuckr.org>
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Chuck Robey wrote: > The disks are very well worth noting. Three of them, organized into the > boot section and the home section. The boot section is a 35G scsi, but > it's 15K rpm rotation rate, which means it's blazing. This would be > fast enough on it's own, but it's not on it's own. Tell me if you think > it's the neatest, but I don't think so. My own encomium is given to the > home section, which is formed from two 145G scsi disks. They are each > only 10K rotation rate (faster than the fastest IDE, anyhow), but each > one has it's own independent scsi bus, so that the fast that they're > hooked together in a striped access via vinum means (in effect) I have a > 290G drive that's, I dunno, I have to get to test, but damned fast, let > me tell you! Ahh, SCSI disks. You used to be able to count on (NetBSD'd) Macs for them. ~Peter Hummers =3D=3D So Schr=F6dinger and Heisenberg are driving around, and Heisenberg says, "I think we just ran over a cat." "Is it dead?" asks Schr=F6dinger. "I can't be certain," says Heisenberg.
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