Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 03:20:13 -0700 From: <chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SCSI vs ATA disks Message-ID: <961669213.3951e85d3373a@www.tdyc.com>
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Hi,
Help!
My box is thrashing badly with 30 users over telnet doing various things (cur
specs:- 233/128M/20G ATA33 disk)! vmstat shows that memory really isn't a
problem (it hardly touches swap) but it's in iowait 70% of the time (excuse the
solaris term). It's being upped to a P2/400 with 256M RAM and a nice Asus
board next week but is still stuck disk wise (I assume that is whats really
causing the problems).
Is it worth putting a 2-4 SCSI-UW disks in instead? If so, what is likely to
be the best cost/performance economy:-
4 x 4.5Gb disk
2 x 9.1Gb disk
Also, are those I-Will controllers any good? I don't really want to fish out
for something like an Adaptec controller when an I-Will one will do the job
probably just as well...
Your suggestions and experiences are welcome.
TIA
- Chris.
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