Re: [squid-users] Raid Hard Disk requirments

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:36:33 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Wilhelm Farrugia wrote:

> Would there be any increased in performance in using two IDE hard disks
> with hardware raid for the cache storage instead of two seperated Hard
> disks managed by squid ? ( Seek time should remain the same as one hard
> disk however thoughput would be increased )

Generally seek times is what you want to optimize for Squid, or more
precisely the total amount of seeks/s your system can sustain.

RAID generally decreases the amount of seeks/s your system can sustain
significantly. Best performance is usually from having separate drives.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Sep 19 2003 - 03:36:41 MDT

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