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I cannot find the document but I believe that the newer 5709 cards have
40mb of cache on them.
When they first came out they only had 16mb.

I did find this nice document on 520 dasd performance.

_____________________________
Bryan Dietz
Aktion Associates


midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/05/2005 12:08:30 PM:

>
> Larry wrote:
>
> > I agree with Pete and still have the question about why the
> > 5703 card in the first place. Are you doing Controller level
> > RAID, doing very heavy I/O or doing LPAR? If not then you
> > really don't have the need for the 5703.
>
> It's just a signle partition machine. The 5703 was chosen over the RAID
> adapter for peformance reasons. Using performance data from our existing
> 170, and the results of the Workload Estimator, it was determined that
the
> larger cache on the 5703 would be beneficial.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John Taylor


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