Re: File system compression, not at the block layer

[Timothy Miller]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Paul Jackson wrote:
>
>
> > > SO... in addition to the brilliance of AS, is there anything else that 
> > > can be done (using compression or something else) which could aid in 
> > > reducing seek time?
> >
> > Buy more disks and only use a small portion of each for all but the
> > most infrequently accessed data.
>
>
> faster drives. The biggest disks at this point are far slower that the 
> fastest... the average read service time on a maxtor atlas 15k is like 
> 5.7ms on 250GB western digital sata, 14.1ms, so that more than twice as 
> many reads can be executed on the fastest disks you can buy now... of 
> course then you pay for it in cost, heat, density, and controller costs. 
> everthing is a tradeoff though.


I had this idea of packing a bunch of those really tiny Toshiba 
quarter-sized drives and some sort of RAID0 controller into a box the 
size of a 3.5" hard drive.


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