[K12OSN] HD noise -scsi vs sata

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 08:42, Shawn Powers wrote:
> Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com> wrote:
> > > Side question: What is better? 2 drives with RAID 0 or seperate drives for 
> > > home and root ?
> > 
> > I think /home gets all the traffic. So probably 2 drives with RAID 0.
> 
> I agree.  If you want root separate, you could put it on a standard IDE drive -- you'll never notice the performance hit.  (NOTE:  That is in ADDITION to the 2 drives in RAID0, not instead of... :)
> 

If you do any amount of email, database, squid, or web server
activity or anything that causes a lot of logging, you will
have traffic in /var.  Having that on a different physical
drive will reduce head contention.

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  Les Mikesell
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