Re: Install Linux on RAID-0 with existing WindowsXP (dual-boot)

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:40:59 -0600, Cisco News <changd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hope I didn't make the wrong decision :( but I spent $320 for 2 WD 74GB
Raptor .... if the performance is pretty much the same (or just a little bit
better) as your configuration ... then I will be really sad .... :(

Usually you get better performance just just by having a larger hard drive.
The larger the hard drive, the greater the number of platters equating
to higher performance, or the greater the data density equating to higher
performance.

I had 10Krpm scsi-3 drives back in the late 90's, 1GB and 3.3GB, and neither did
more than 5MB/s. :

The WD raptor is an exception. I dunno how they do it, but it gets the kind
of performance you'd expect from a drive twenty times the size.
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