Re: Single vs. dual shelf performance on F230

I would be willing to bet that this is probably one of those questions only answerable by testing for accurate results.

Seems like the fewer drives/controller should be faster, but whether or not it's measurable would be an intersting intellectual excercise.

Since the toaster only uses 1 parity disk for a whole pool of drives, I'm going to bet it's not significantly faster.

On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Brian Tao wrote:

If I had an F230 with, say, 6 drives, would I see any significant

performance gain by placing 3 drives per shelf, rather than having all 6 drives on one shelf (and thus one controller)? This will be for heavily randomized file accesses (e.g., mail or news spool). -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"