stlouislouis
04-27-2002, 10:50 PM
Wondering about this. What have you seen in practice?
Wondering why we don't see more web servers with SCSI instead of IDE drives? Seems like it would enable each server to handle more accounts at the same load one would have under IDE? Am I missing something? Assume, say 1 GB RAM or whatever on otherwise identical setups -- only difference being SCSI .vs IDE HDDs.
Thank you very much for sharing!!
Louis
RackMy.com
04-27-2002, 11:31 PM
Wondering why we don't see more web servers with SCSI instead of IDE drives85% of our web servers use SCSI.
Avail
04-27-2002, 11:38 PM
Originally posted by stlouislouis
Wondering why we don't see more web servers with SCSI instead of IDE drives?
Seems simple enough; IDE is cheaper.
mattan
04-28-2002, 11:32 AM
..it all boils down to dollar and cents. IDE drives are just much cheaper and in terms of speed are as fast as SCSI drives. In addition, most web server do a lot of reading and not writing and as such there really isn't very much difference in overall performance.
cheers
Thomas.N11
04-29-2002, 05:03 AM
IDE is popular because for the most part web servers are not very I/O intensive.
Ahmad
04-29-2002, 11:24 AM
Originally posted by Thomas.N11
IDE is popular because for the most part web servers are not very I/O intensive.
That depends.
Each HTTP page view will generate several hits (to get images, ..etc). Each hit is served from the hard disk. Multiply that by the number of page views per second you get.
The same goes for serving mail, ftp, etc.
If I were asked, I would say that servers are machines that pump content from the hard disk into the network for every request.
Thomas.N11
04-29-2002, 12:23 PM
Originally posted by Ahmad
That depends.
Each HTTP page view will generate several hits (to get images, ..etc). Each hit is served from the hard disk. Multiply that by the number of page views per second you get.
The same goes for serving mail, ftp, etc.
If I were asked, I would say that servers are machines that pump content from the hard disk into the network for every request.
Yeah, it does depend really on the site(s) being served. If you have a single site on a server where the same content is being served repeteadly, then as I understand it the content is primarily being served directly from memory and therefore hard drive performance isn't as critical.
I guess it would probably depend on the type of sites being served, memory, etc.
Interesting concept, nonetheless.
