[TriLUG] Large fast hard disks
Mike M
linux-support at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 23 14:52:40 EST 2003
On Thursday 23 January 2003 13:48, John Franklin wrote:
> Period of absorption? If by that you mean "sustainable throughput",
> then no, disk size has almost nothing to do with it.
period of time when disk is absorbing the content of the E1 pipe (2.048 Mb/s)
= partition size in bits / bit rate; can't let the partition overflow; assume
E1 utilization is 100%
Consensus is that 2 Mb/s sustained is no problem then for newer IDE or SCSI.
Thanks
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Mike M.
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