Subject: CCL:Mass storage devices

From: "Jochen Küpper" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:05:51 +0100 (CET)

[email-masked] writes:
 > i) what is the best strategy (in terms of best performance): write a few, huge
 > files to huge disk partitions or, alternatively, split big files into smaller
 > ones over many disk partitions?
 > ii) could someone point to additional information on fast access mass storage
 > devices?

Use RAID. That defers the first problem back to OS' or hardware
designers. Striping should give you best average performance.

Many OS's allow software RAID without any additional hardware, but
then if you are willing to spend the cash, you could use hardware RAID
as well :-)
Fail-safety is something else to be considered, but probably not for
your "scratch"-files.

Jochen
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