Re: How important is harddisk performance?

[Ken Peng <kenpeng@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi there.
>
> I'm planning to build a new dedicated Squid-box, with amd64 and 4 gigs
> of RAM, with two cache_dir's on two separate harddisks and Squid-3 
doing
> application level striping, all servicing around 6k users. Will two
> recent IDE disks of 7200 rpm suffice, or I'm better off getting two
> 15000 rpm SCSI disks on a dedicated controller board?

15000 rpm SCSI is surely much better than 7200 rpm IDE's.
We use 15K rpm of SAS disks, that're more better I may thought.