On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Ronald wrote:
I often try out (installing) Linux distributions, so this is an I/O intensive operation (writing to the drive).
Would using SCSI drive significantly improve the installing time? (halve it?)
FYI currently I use Seagate 7200.7 80 GB and to get full 3 GB install takes around ~10 to 20 minutes.
largest source of overhead is probably decompressing packages followed by reading the data off the cd... you probably can't do that much about the cd speed but cpu you can do something about I guess...
Installing over the network a couple days ago a 3ghz xeon with a western digital 800jd ide drive we have completed in around 10 minutes with install everything selected. it's connceted via gigabit ethernet to the server that houses our distros.
Motherboard is Abit KG7-Raid which doesn't have inbuilt SCSI adapter, so I have to buy a separate adapter. CPU is Athlon XP 2400+ with 512 MB RAM.
And the drive I want to get is probably Seagate Cheetah 15K.3: 18 GB, 15,000 prm Ultra320 SCSI http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,619,00.html
Thanks
Ronald
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