Re: Fast disks

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From: John Robison
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 20:43

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Dennis Glatting writes
> My user's home directories are NFS mounted from client NeXTs to a NeXT  
> file server.  I want to place some of them on a fast external disk:   
<10ms  
> at, >1gb.  Any drive recommendations?
> 
Save your money.

The bottleneck is the NeXT SCSI bus, not the drives.
All the large (>1Gig) drives we have used easily out-pace
the NeXT.

If you want *real* performance, try hooking that >1Gig
to a Sun Server. We seem to get a 2-4x increase in 
throughput from files on our Sun, vs. files on the NeXT.
All this is through NFS.

Just my $0.02,

John

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John Robison - Oceania Health Care Systems 
john@oceania.com - NeXTMail Gladly Accepted

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