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SubjectRe: File system compression, not at the block layer


Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Paul Jackson wrote:
>
>
>>>SO... in addition to the brilliance of AS, is there anything else that
>>>can be done (using compression or something else) which could aid in
>>>reducing seek time?
>>
>>Buy more disks and only use a small portion of each for all but the
>>most infrequently accessed data.
>
>
> faster drives. The biggest disks at this point are far slower that the
> fastest... the average read service time on a maxtor atlas 15k is like
> 5.7ms on 250GB western digital sata, 14.1ms, so that more than twice as
> many reads can be executed on the fastest disks you can buy now... of
> course then you pay for it in cost, heat, density, and controller costs.
> everthing is a tradeoff though.


I had this idea of packing a bunch of those really tiny Toshiba
quarter-sized drives and some sort of RAID0 controller into a box the
size of a 3.5" hard drive.


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