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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Recommendations for high disk throughput
- Message-ID: <1998@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:50:16 GMT
- References: <THOMSON.93Jan22073952@zarda.macc.wisc.edu> <1993Jan27.205507.13234@grc.genroco.com>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <1993Jan27.205507.13234@grc.genroco.com>, joe@grc.genroco.com (Joe Nordman) writes:
- [ re IPI drives ]
- >
- > Now as Alan Rollow points out, this may well be overkill for the original
- > requirement. But even for random I/O or NFS; on DECsystems, IPI is much
- > faster than SCSI. ....
- >
- I have no arguments with (but do thank the author for) the info re IPI
- drives. But I would opt for slower/cheaper SCSI and throw a lot more memory
- into the machine instead. At least, OUR DEC 5000's seem to be happier that
- way...
-
-
- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
-