On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:48:52PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > See http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/hardware/46g.png for some quick > benchmark results showing the differences between a single IDE drive, two > drives on separate channels, and two drives on the same channel. > > Apart from one drive being exceedingly slow at the start (for reasons I have > not yet determined) it seems that two drives on the same channel isn't much > slower than two drives on separate channels. > > Having two drives on separate channels is slower than a single drive can run > on it's own, I think that this is a limitation of CPU and bus performance > (which will be the main factor when you have 8 drives in an array).
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