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rowan · 02-10-2006, 11:43 AM

It's a moot point having a fast HD if the heads are having to madly seek all over the place... you can count the days before it fails dramatically.

BTW even though the SATA 1 interface can push through 1.5Gbps the drive itself most likely cannot.

If you're serving a limited set of content (say only a gig or two) then a file system in RAM would be one option to consider.

Personally I would go for the multiple server option, if you're pushing out that rate of data then it's probably something reasonably important; what happens when the server fails?

02-10-2006, 11:43 AM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	It's a moot point having a fast HD if the heads are having to madly seek all over the place... you can count the days before it fails dramatically. BTW even though the SATA 1 interface can push through 1.5Gbps the drive itself most likely cannot. If you're serving a limited set of content (say only a gig or two) then a file system in RAM would be one option to consider. Personally I would go for the multiple server option, if you're pushing out that rate of data then it's probably something reasonably important; what happens when the server fails?