[K12OSN] new server serial ATA or SCSI - results on new 3ware card

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:15, Chris Kacoroski wrote:
> They are standard Western Digital 7200 RPM SATA drives (250GB each).  I 
> have not had a change to test the system with the 10K WD raptors yet 
> (next week).

Can you give the 'Postmark' benchmark a shot?
http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3022.html

It attempts to simulate real-world activity of small file
creation/deletion like you have in a multiuser environment.
I used it a few years ago to convince myself that it was
worth using reiserfs for /var even though it was relatively
new at the time.

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  Les Mikesell
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