Multiple Drives for Proxy Cache

RouterOS General
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I know for most things IDE is fine on the Mikrotik router. Running a proxy is different though.

If one has a 10ms seek time at very best case on a single IDE drive you cannot excede 100 requests a second. So supporting an array of 2 - 4 SCSCI drives would be great. SCSCI works better even with a single drive for a caching proxy anyway. Of course supporting multiple IDE drives for cache would help to but IDE would not support many drives like SCSCI.

Matthew

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what about hardware array? you can’t force OS to handle all this, it is already doing a lot of things!

hardware SCSI with 15k drives on 64bit 66Mhz pci bus would be nice. But expensive.