RE: Tuning Linux for high-speed disk subsystems

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:51:07 +0100 (CET)


> Our 100 Gig SCSI raid, consisting of 6 15,000 rpm drives on the motherboard's
> two SCSI 160 channels gives a full 110MB/sec read and write with RAID 0. With
> RAID chunks set to 1MB the write accesses go to 160MB/sec and read accesses
> go to 90MB/sec sustained. This system would make a good motion capture tool.
> Previous Intel attempts at onboard disk I/O would give 50MB/sec.

How much do you think I can get out of 2x6 15k disks - each 6 disks are on
their own SCSI-3/160 bus.

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

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