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    > Actually, aren't a number of newer drives getting upwards of 30MB/s?
    >

    Well, at 80MB/sec these drives are able to come in at an average of about
    34MB/s across the board.

    > > Therefore, you only exceed the 80MB/sec bus speed if you
    > > have more than 4 disks all doing maximum I/O at the same time. Since
    the
    > > PowerApp.web 100 has at most 2 disks internally, you really shouldn't
    see
    > > any significant performance difference.

    I wouldn't dare argue that I'd get some huge performance boost, but I am
    running software raid1 on multiple spindles (we have some drives attached
    externally) so it should help some.
    Also, this unit is doing heavy read/write of small files and the lower
    latency, and
    burstable transfers do help some. I temporarily disabled that code and the
    increase in IO's per second is measurable, though not earth shattering, but
    I
    was afraid to leave it that way because fast corrupted data is worth much
    less
    that only slightly slower good data.

    It was really just an issue of if the code still needed to be there.
    Workarounds that are put in as temporary have a tendency to never get
    revisited
    until someone brings them up, and on top of that they make Linux look sloppy
    to
    me (the same drives work correctly at Ultra160 under that other OS, or at
    least appear to). I know it
    won't make a huge difference to me, but if some user has a 12 disk RAID
    array
    full of Quantum disks it will make a big difference to them.

    Later,
    Tom



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