>> Main thing
>> that speeds up the AMD box is using 320MB scsi's
>> for near-term storage. They are hugely faster than
>> [S]ATA or IDE used on most equipment these days.
>
> what R/W speeds can you expect?

Operations on SCSI run 2-3 times faster for large-ish
file transfers (say 1MB or more). For example GIMP
runs without noticeable pauses on most operations with
my 2GHz opteron using the SCSI's as storage and scratch
space; on the same machine with the SATA's it bogs down
to the point of annoyance, with things like saves taking
seconds to complete. The only difference being which
drives I'm using for tiles and data.

Bonnie gets upset validating the scsi space on this
box since it has 8GB of core and I don't have 16GB
free on the device so I can't give you any specific
numbers.


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