Thread: Help me decide - How would you do it?
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Old 17-03-2005, 21:24   #8
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Re: Help me decide - How would you do it?
Just depends...
If your aiming to maximise "flat out" fileserver performance, then maybe having the system on a drive that is not used for data throughput, may help - if it forces you to pair it with one of the other drives, or pair them on the same cable, then forget it...

While the fast drive is not dragged down to the speed of the slow, the time taken in transferring at less than maximum speed eats into the time available for the faster drive.

If the 4Gb is, say, a fireball CR with ATA/66 transfer and, if I recall, a sustained transfer of 10Mb/s (the ATA/66 speed said to be irrelevant), then it would be a worthy drive, while a slower drive with only PIO4/MW2 DMA is less exciting.
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