Re: [PERFORM] 8x2.5" or 6x3.5" disks

From: Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing(at)tweakers.net>
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 05:29:23 EST

There are several suppliers who offer Seagate's 2.5" 15k rpm disks, I know HP, Dell are amongst those. So I was actually refering to those, rather than to the 10k one's.

Best regards,

Arjen

david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
>

>> On 28-1-2008 20:25 Christian Nicolaisen wrote:
>>> So, my question is: should I go for the 2.5" disk setup or 3.5" disk 
>>> setup, and does the raid setup in either case look correct?
>>
>> Afaik they are about equal in speed. With the smaller ones being a bit 
>> faster in random access and the larger ones a bit faster for 
>> sequential reads/writes.

>
> I missed the initial post in this thread, but I haven't seen any 15K rpm
> 2.5" drives, so if you compare 10K rpm 2.5" drives with 15K rpm 3.5"
> drives you will see differences (depending on your workload and
> controller cache)
>
> David Lang
>
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