[luau] improving sustainable write to disk rates
MonMotha
monmotha at indy.rr.com
Wed Sep 4 15:57:00 PDT 2002
Warren Togami wrote:
....
>
> I think modern SCSI drives (and even IDE drives) can sustain 40MB/sec
> sequential with only a single disk. What kind of speeds do you get with
> a single disk on that SCSI controller?
>
....
Modern SCSI drives can, and modern SCSI busses can handle multiple
drives all maxxed. Unfortunately, he says his RAID controller has some
odd issue that's forcing it to SCSI 2 (Ultra SCSI, didn't specify wide
or fast, but I assume one of them as Ultra SCSI 2 is only 20MB/sec).
40MB/sec is hitting the max transfer rate of the bus. He needs to
convince it to actually use the Ultra SCSI 3 (U160) modes that it's
supposed to support.
--MonMotha
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