| From: | Robert Cranley |
| Date: | 9 Mar 2001 at 00:37:20 |
| Subject: | Re: slow blizzard |
Hi mark,
On 08-Mar-01, you wrote:
> right, so what do i have to do to get ANY WHERE NEAR THE 16.6 MEG/SEC
> transfer
> RATES CLAIMED by powercomputing when using the powerflyer gold.
In theory it CAN do the rates CLAIMED. To achieve that though is nigh on
impossible. There are a lot of factors. If your blocksize is too small it'll
be slow. If your buffers are too small it'll be slow. If there's another
slower drive on the same interface it'll be slow. If your drive's fragmented
it'll be slow. If you're using FFS it'll be slow. If you've lots of files or
dirs in one directory it'll be slow. If it's lots of small files it'll be
slow. If there's simultaneous access it'll be slow. If the PIO settings
aren't optimum it'll be slow. Add all those up and it'll be pretty much
slow...
> TONY from powercomputing told me to get a blizzard 060(i have a scsi kit
> with it,but not using the scsi side of it, and also i have 96 meg ram),
> which i got (both my hd`s are about 14 months old), and it would fix this
> slow problem up.
Anyone else got a feeling of deja vu here? Was this not discussed only a
short while ago?
Regards,
Rob
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