On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:18:38PM -0600, Jay Sern Liew wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Does anyone know if a NFS server with a 7200RPM IDE HD will perform
> significantly better than a 5400RPM IDE HD over a cable connection? I'm
> assuming that the performance will only be noticable iff the NFS client is
> close(geographically) to the NFS server, i.e. same LAN since the bottleneck
> would be at the network level.
If by 'cable' you mean a cable modem providing at best a few Mb/s
bandwidth, then I doubt the speed of your disk will have any impact
whatsoever. Even the crappiest ATA disk will be able to deliver a few
MB/s -- in the worst case that's still an order of magnitude more than you
can stuff down your cable modem.
On the other hand, on a 100Mb/s LAN you likely will notice the difference,
especially if your server has multiple users.
> Also, if the 5400RPM IDE HD was RAIDed, would that match an unRAIDed
> 7200RPM IDE HD? Thanks in advance.
Depends on what sort of RAID it is and what you're doing with it.
HTH,
Scott
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