I'm currently trying to put together a personal workstation whose
primary duty is compiling large projects (FreeBSD, mozilla, grass, etc.)
under FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. Im basically trying to get as much
performance for builds as I can without going broke. So far this is what
Im looking at:
$--- 128M PC133 RAM
$150 Asus A7V (w/ Promise ATA100 controller)
$297 AMD Athlon 850 (still waiting for than price drop)
$63 Tekram 390F UW-SCSI Controller (Symbios)
$132 4.5G 10000RPM Seagate Cheetah
or
$97 IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA-100 7200RPM 15G (DTLA)
The question is, whats the real speed difference between a IBM 75GX
(http://www.tweakmax.com/html/ibm75gxp/ibm-1.cfm) and ye old 10000RPM
Cheetahs in FreeBSD? Id imagine the Cheetah is faster for compiles, but
is the difference small enough that Id be better off spending the $100 I
save on ATA100 and spend it on another 128M of RAM. I would of course be
using the drive as one drive per channel w/ softupdates, noatime.
Any advice, bonnie stats, or make world times would be appreciated.
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