[squid-users] multiple disks for cache storage

Gd morning all,
I have noticed in some (at least one) recent postings with description
of a system which included only one large disk media.
Some time ago when I first explored the pleasures of building my own
proxy I learnt that better performance could be obtained from the
technology of the time by building the cache storage on a disk system
seperate from the OS, and logs, and built with multiple small disks.
With advances in disk technology does such a concept still apply ?
Or do larger disk caches, higher access rates and other improvements
mean that such tricks to reduce average seek times for cache reads are
less important on busy machines.

cheers
Graham
Received on Sun Apr 12 2009 - 23:09:00 MDT