Can you compress the data on the fly to lessen the load on the disks?
On 12/4/05, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:
>> On 4 Dec 2005, at 15:02, Paul Jakma wrote:
>> >> Certainly Maxtor quotes 300MB/s write rates for their Maxline SATA
> >> drives, and 3ware quotes 380MB/s RAID-5 writes for their newest
> >> controller, so I guess even if they're exaggerating by 400%, I could
> >> still achieve my targets.
> >
> > For the drive figure: What about if they're "exaggerated" by 800%?
> > (hint hint.. sure it's not Mbit/s?).
>> Yup - the MaxLine drives are 3Gb SATA, and they quote 300MB/s .
>> > Also, you need to look at more than just the disks and controllers.
>> Indeed, but the data rates desired are well within reach of a fast
> machine, PCI Express, and a decent controller - the disks are really
> the last bottleneck.
>>>> Niall
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