Re: [K12OSN] Yellow Dog, Was: Roadmap vs FAQ?

["Les Mikesell" <les futuresource com>]

From: "Eric Harrison" <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>

> The only gotcha I see with the new G5s is that they ship with IDE drives.
> That can be a nasty performance bottleneck. I guess /home could always
> be NFS mounted over to a box with fast drives. We do this to knock-down
> the price of some of our Intel-based servers.

The transfer rate on current IDE's isn't much different than SCSI and
with DMA they don't consume the whole CPU like they used to, but
they still can only have one outstanding command per controller.  A
Mac might do fairly well with a few external firewire drives to spread
the seeks around - or the Xserve raid box if you need that much.

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   Les Mikesell
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