[mapserver-users] RE: To SCSI or not ?

[.d.z.a.]

Sort off, well that depends really.

In most cases you will do fine in with IDE. Seems like the time generating
and latency due to the program out ways that of 7200rpm IDE drives. What it
boils down to though is how many users you are expecting to hit the website,

if its a lot >500 a day or so, SCSI will make a slight difference. IMO
though I have set up commercial servers, not for GIS based web application
however, on IDE Raids that gives me the performance I need for substantially
lower costs than an equivalent SCSI based system.

The other argument is that there is so much latency in accessing anything
over the web, that the performance gain in using SCSI is insignificant.

my .02
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  From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of nyon
  Sent: 30 July 2001 03:49
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
  Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: To SCSI or not ?


  Hi,

  I am setting up my map server on a shoestring budget and was
  wondering whether a SCSI hardisk makes a big difference compared to a IDE-
7200rpm hd for
  serving maps.

  thanks

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