[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Peter Hosey]

On Aug 23, 2007, at 13:07:59, Graham Booker wrote:
> I seriously think that if we had a collection of minis, the  
> limiting factor will not be the processing power, but the  
> contention for the single 5400 rpm drive which is inside the  
> computer hosting the build process and its cache of the said disk.

Ah. I didn't know they would be all be working from a single disk.

> Now, if we were talking about the difference between two Xserves,  
> or a single Xserve and a bunch of minis, I think the latter would  
> perform much better due to the fast disk and architecture of the  
> Xserve to host multiple machines.

Either that, or some sort of low-cost FireWire RAID enclosure with  
some cheap low-capacity drives. (No, I don't know whether this sort  
of thing exists. I hope so, if it'd be much cheaper than an Xserve.)

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