Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:14:04 -0700 From: <soralx@cydem.zp.ua> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck? Message-ID: <200301181114.04010.soralx@cydem.zp.ua> In-Reply-To: <20030118105015.GB783@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <1042849118.3e289d5ee4458@webmail.americanhorizonsbank.com> <20030118105015.GB783@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
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> If by 'cable' you mean a cable modem providing at best a few Mb/s > bandwidth, then I doubt the speed of your disk will have any impact > whatsoever. Even the crappiest ATA disk will be able to deliver a few > MB/s -- in the worst case that's still an order of magnitude more than you > can stuff down your cable modem. what if he needs to read lot of small files (few KB) - he'd better get 7200RPM UDMA HDD with big cache... 18.01.2003; 11:11:30 [SorAlx] http://cydem.zp.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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