From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 18 10:15:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D6D37B405 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from 002.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com (002.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com [216.123.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D9243F6B for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.zp.ua) Received: from 128.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com (vasya [192.168.0.3]) by 002.216-123-229-0.interbaun.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0IIFfr24432 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:15:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.zp.ua) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck? Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:14:04 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <1042849118.3e289d5ee4458@webmail.americanhorizonsbank.com> <20030118105015.GB783@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030118105015.GB783@fishballoon.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200301181114.04010.soralx@cydem.zp.ua> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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