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>We are looking at upgrading our campus Usenet News server from a hopelessly
>overburdened DECstation 3100 to a DECstation 5000/240.  The biggest bottleneck
>for handling news has been disk access time, so we're looking at options that
>will allow us the highest disk throughput possible to a disk with a capacity
>of at least a gigabyte.  I'm looking for advice on an optimal configuration

	Your message-ID was a Cnewsish one. I'd start by upgrading to
INN. That will solve some of your problems right away.
	If that doesn't do it, I think I'd buy a second SCSI controller
and get the disk striping for ULTRIX software (from assets) and about
4 Rz25s. Those are the little, *fast* 500or-so-meg disks. I'd build
them into a stripe set with 2 on each controller, and then I'd add a
pile of RAM to the machine. Alternative #2 is an IPI controller and
a big, fast IPI disk.

mjr.
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