[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: 'Real World' Hard-drive throughput - SATA vs Ultra160 SCSI

[Bryan J. Smith]

Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> Perhaps RAID5, but certainly topping 100MBps can be done
> with the older processors (since I've done this at least
> with RAID10 dual channel Elite 1600).

The i960RN/IOP303 are the last, fastest i960s produced.

I don't see how they are capable of 100MBps unless your
benchmark did not use a sustained transfer size that was in
excess of what the kernel could buffer (i.e., significantly
greater than system memory size)



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