<div dir="ltr"><div>My two cents: even though there are differences between SAS and SATA, they are not so huge.<br></div><div>From this point of view I guess that a fast Solid State Hard Disk would make the difference on the I/O.</div>
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-07 10:06 GMT+02:00 Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it" target="_blank">paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 18:15 -0400, Eduardo Menendez wrote:<br>
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> Is it critical to use SAS disks (compared to SATA) for good<br>
> performance of Quantum ESPRESSO?<br>
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I guess it depends upon the amount of I/O you plan to do<br>
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