[Pw_forum] SATA vs SAS

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

On Aug 8, 2014 1:23 PM, "Eduardo Menendez" <eariel99 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> Thanks for the replies to my question. Some answers were devoted to solid
state devices (SSD), but I had asked about SAS (Serial attached SCSI) in
comparison to SATA disks. I know that SAS are better for high I/O load. The
point is how critical ist that for QE.
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> I have to choice between (better CPU with SATA) vs (worse CPU with SAS).
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> I have the feeling (from the times of IDE hard disks), that under heavy
I/O load (using swap memory), the use of CPU drops to 1% and calculations
are impractical. I guess it is still true, i.e., heavy I/O are to be
avoided in ab initio calculations.

There is no simple answer to your choice that is always valid.  Many other
factors can have a big impact, bigger than SAS vs sata. E.g. High capacity
disks have higher throughput. Thus your approach is not very useful. You
need to find what the weakest point in your configuration is. That can be
ram, cpu clock or type, disk, whether to add an SSD or not, a dedicated
scratch disk. And more.

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> Eduardo Menendez Proupin
> Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile
> URL: http://www.gnm.cl/emenendez
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> “Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”
Karl Popper
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