Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:22:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gopakumar H Pillai <gopu@global.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Seagate SCSI 18GB Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420142035.9805W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <353BB500.D852D741@global.com>
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Gopakumar H Pillai wrote: > I am planning to buy Seagate SCSI 18GB ST118273N for our FreeBSD 2.2.5 > Server. The SCSI controller is the Buslogic PCI BT-948 Ultra Fast. What are you planning on putting on this disk? If it's anything but archival (ie, infrequently used) storage your thruput to it will be horrendous. I'd suggest a 4x4GB disk array striped with ccd or driven by a DPT SCSI controller. This way you can have 4 seeks running simultaneously instead of one. > Is this a right choice? Looking at the price performance ratio, this was > good. Any different opinion? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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