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Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine

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On 12/11/2016 01:34 AM, Roger Blake wrote:
> On 2016-12-10, Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> wrote:
>> Is there a reason why you gave that one as an example, chipset,
>> manufacturer or was it simply an inexpensive board with useful specs?
> 
> Just an example of a low-cost SATA III board. There are plenty around.
> I used one similar to this for my SSD before upgrading to a board that
> had built-in SATA III.
> 

Thanks.  Looking at the moment it seems there is not much middle ground,
either two ports much cheaper or something much more heavyweight with
matching price tag.  But I have two SSDs only and the two port boards
are cheap enough.


> It sounds like your bottleneck is the mechanical drives. To significantly
> speed up you'll need faster drives, or at least a faster type of RAID array.
> 

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Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 22:41 +0000
  Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-12-08 16:44 +0000
    Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-10 11:24 +0000
      Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-12-11 01:34 +0000
        Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-11 22:07 +0000
  Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2016-12-10 12:43 +0100
    Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-10 20:44 +0000
      Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2016-12-10 23:05 +0100
        Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-11 11:54 +0000
          Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2016-12-11 14:10 +0100
            Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-11 22:46 +0000
              Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> - 2016-12-12 19:22 +0100
            Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-13 10:17 +0100
              Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-14 20:03 +0000
                Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-15 12:55 +0100
                Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-15 23:18 +0000
                Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-16 09:34 +0100
        Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-13 09:57 +0100
  Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-12 09:11 +0100
    Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-12 23:08 +0000
      Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-13 09:29 +0100
        Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-14 23:16 +0000
          Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-15 13:15 +0100
            Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> - 2016-12-15 22:50 +0000
              Re: Speed ups for a disk IO bound machine David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-12-16 09:39 +0100

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