Fastest 1 or 2 gig hard disk for Sparc 10?

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From: Henrik Schmiediche
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:00

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     Hello,
anyone know what is the fastest 1 and/or 2 gig SCSI-II hard disk for a
Sun Sparc 10 (150 Mhz HyperSparc) is (less then $1k)? This is for
swap, mail and /var space on a heavily used machine. The current disk
is a Sun0424 (Seagate ST 1480N). Seagate seems to have discontinued
their fast ST31200N drives and their new 1 gig SCSI-II drives lack
performance (at least looking at the specs).

Also, does balancing the load between two or more hard disks on the
same SCSI controller give significant performance improvements? I have
heard yes, but is the SCSI bus not limited to one active device? Is it
worth getting a 2nd SCSI controller if hard disk performance is a
bottleneck in the system? Anyone know of a good source for a 2nd Sparc
10 (preferably also usable in a Sparc 20) SCSI controller?

     - Henrik
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