Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:15:11 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: File system compression, not at the block layer |
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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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