At 16:51 99/03/18 -0600, Scott Moseman wrote:
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> My question is for the intial build, should we focus more on faster CPU's
> or on more RAM? I'm curious as to which would be a better performer. I
> know it's good to have plenty of both *grin* but we (of course) have a
> limited budget initially and would like to know which route is better to
> start up with.
My personal experience was that I saw some improvement having faster disk
access. I have Advansys UW scsi card, and the benchmark showed significant
improvement when I turned the UW option on.
Initially, I had some problem with SCSI driver, so I knocked the UW option
off then ran the benchmark. After confirming the proper operation of UW
mode, I ran the benchmark again and saw the improvement (about 10%
overall). So, if price justify your needs for speed, faster drive &
controller card is one factor that you might want to consider.
Hiro
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