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> You didn't mention whether is it SCSI or IDE.

Based on the fact that it's 15k rpms, I'm guessing scsi - do ide disks
faster than 7.2k rpms exist?


> Don't  do  RAID. Bring up a filesystem on each disk (with soft updates
> of  course),  mount  them  "-o  noatime"  and  configure  Squid to use
> multiple cache dirs.

Why is this preferrable to striping with raid-0?


 -Jason

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