Working with Arrays of Inexpensive EIDE Disk Drives

نویسندگان

  • David Sanders
  • Chris Riley
  • Lucien Cremaldi
  • Don Summers
  • Don Petravick
چکیده

In today’s marketplace, the cost per Terabyte of disks with EIDE interfaces is about a third that of disks with SCSI. Hence, three times as many particle physics events could be put online with EIDE. The modern EIDE interface includes many of the performance features that appeared earlier in SCSI. EIDE bus speeds approach 33 Megabytes/s and need only be shared between two disks rather than seven disks. The internal I/O rate of very fast (and expensive) SCSI disks is only 50 per cent greater than EIDE disks. Hence, two EIDE disks whose combined cost is much less than one very fast SCSI disk can actually give more data throughput due to the advantage of multiple spindles and head actuators. We explore the use of 12 and 16 Gigabyte EIDE disks with motherboard and PCI bus card interfaces on a number of operating systems and CPUs. These include Red Hat Linux and Windows 95/98 on a Pentium, MacOS and Apple’s Rhapsody/NeXT/UNIX on a PowerPC, and Sun Solaris on a UltraSparc 10 workstation. Computing in High Energy Physics Conference (CHEP ’98) August 31 – September 4, 1998 Hotel Inter–Continental Chicago, Illinois, USA Contact: [email protected] This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under grant DE-FG02-91ER40622 and contract DE-AC02-76CH03000.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998