Re: How many Hard Drives?

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From: Philip DeBecker
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:00

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Craig Irvine wrote:
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> In article <3213CE50.120EE92B@corona.iinet.net.au>, bakes@corona.iinet.net.au says...
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> >Putting half of each on two disks
> >will help to improve performance by sharing the IO load.
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> Only on a SCSI disk system as the SCSI controller is intelligent.
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> Craig

Not exactly.  Even on an IDE system, putting (at least) the swap
partition on one drive and the rest of the system on another will allow
the heads to stay in the swap area on one disk and on your applications
in another.  Head seek is still the largest component of overhead in
drive operations.

I don't know if putting these drives on different *controllers* would
also help; I know the bandwidth of IDE controllers is kind of limited if
both disks are on the same channel.

Just my $0.02

Phil

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