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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:57:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.com
Subject: Re: News server
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On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am planing on adding to main news servers to feed a network of news
> > feeders. I plan on using P5 200 with 256 megs ram and 2 9 gig WSCSI for
[snip]
> 
> You would get a real speed increase if you used 5 4GB SCSI disks.  Those
[snip]

Do you or anyone on this list think CCD'ing would make a significant
increase in thruput over the 5 4 gig scenario?

I have a couple of news servers with multiple same sized drives that were
set up before I knew of ccd.  Do the benefits outweight the risks if one
goes bad?