[rescue] Sun Blade 100 Question - IDE

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 07:01, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> If you mean simply adding a second disk, then I can't imagine the
> performance hit would be too great - no matter what channel the drive
> goes onto.  Since you're not doing RAID over IDE, you'll typically only
> access one drive at a time for large data transfers.  It seems to me,
> and I could be wrong, that performance should *increase* with the
> addition of more spindles - I can't imagine it would *decrease*.  That
> sounds like broken technology to me...

Kurt, IDE == Broken technology.  Adding another disk can very well
decrease performance on an IDE system, if both drives are on the same
bus (cable).
	Greg

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