Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 15:16:20 04/25/03
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On April 24, 2003 at 10:51:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 24, 2003 at 06:25:12, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I'm considering buying a fast hard-drive. Probably a Seagate Cheetah or Maxtor >>Atlas. Both SCSI, 15k rpm and 8 Mb caches. I'm currently using a standard 7200 >>rpm drive. >> >>- can I expect to see a significant performance gain while any of my chess >>programs are hitting endgame tablebases? > >Yes. > >15K rpm drives cut the rotational latency by 1/3, dropping it to an average >of 2ms. > >15K rpm drives to not transfer data any faster than 10K drives, and you will >find that 15K drives are not as "dense" as 10K drives, with respect to max >capacity. The largest 15K drives I have seen are about 72 gigs. I have 8 36 >gig 15K drives in my dual xeon (36 gig was the biggest when I bought them.) > > > > >> >>- I also frequently search across a 2 million game database. Can I expect to >>see a significant reduction in these search times. Currently they average a >>minute or so. > >If you use U320 15K scsi drives, they _scream_ and nothing wwill come close >to them. atleast untill the third revision of Serial ATA comes out. > > > > >> >>Gordon
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