Re: More drives or bigger drives

From: Chris Berry <compjma_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 18:21:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0058EA57.20030502182136@fatcity.com>

>From: david hill <david.hill_at_lechateau.ca>
>We were looking into buying A new IO subsystem for a new server.
>
>So I was curios what everybody's thoughts were on what is faster
>
>4 x 73gig or 8 * 36gig
>
>Higher density or more heads?

Depends on your controllers, if you're going one per controller then the 8 will be way faster, if you're going to have one controller for all drives, then the four will be faster.

Chris Berry
compjma_at_hotmail.com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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