Author: john rice
Date: 11:05:26 07/15/02
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I use two Maxtor 40Gig ATA133 drives in a Raid 0 configuration and get outstanding performance with it. Slater, if you get a chance try running the Si Soft Sandra 2002 (freeware) hard drive bench mark with your scsi drive. I'm courious if it is faster than my Raid set-up. My average benchmark score is 48,000kB/s. On July 15, 2002 at 11:44:01, Slater Wold wrote: >On July 15, 2002 at 10:59:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 15, 2002 at 08:57:13, Gordon Rattray wrote: >> >>>I currently use Fritz, etc. to analyse a lot of endgame positions. During the >>>search there is often a large amount of tablebase hits (I'm currently using all >>>5 man TBs with a 32Mb TB cache). It regularly seems that the disk access speed >>>is more of a bottleneck than the processor. >>> >>>Should I consider using a faster disk (I'm currently using a 7200rpm IDE drive)? >>> Will it be worth it? Should I use SCSI instead of IDE? >>> >>>thanks in advance >>> >>>Gordon >> >> >>SCSI is definitely better. 10K and 15K drives are also definitely >>faster... The probes are I/O intensive, so anything you can do to >>reduce I/O costs will help the engine. This includes a larger Cache >>also, of course. > >I went from a WD 7200 RPM IDE drive to a Fuji 10K SCSI drive, and saw consistant >15-20 percent gains in the search of half a dozen engines.
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