- Dec 12, 2003
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After seeing the responses and of the few there were in the general forum I figured my question might be to technical.
When hooking up external hard drives via usb or firewire what are the requirements of the CPU to just share data out.
How does the CPU handle the IO when it will actually not be using the data for its own purpose (Watching a movie or loading game data into memory).
If this is to low tech for this forum delete it and I'll understand. but the reposnes to file server questions in the general forum had no sensible logic behind there replies.
I have a 500 P3 with a firewire card hooked up to a bridgeboard with two drives on the bridge. Now if laod the enclosure up with 8 drives across two bridgeboards connected to the pci board and data is being pulled from 2-4 drives how much does the CPU play in the transfer.
Thanks.
When hooking up external hard drives via usb or firewire what are the requirements of the CPU to just share data out.
How does the CPU handle the IO when it will actually not be using the data for its own purpose (Watching a movie or loading game data into memory).
If this is to low tech for this forum delete it and I'll understand. but the reposnes to file server questions in the general forum had no sensible logic behind there replies.
I have a 500 P3 with a firewire card hooked up to a bridgeboard with two drives on the bridge. Now if laod the enclosure up with 8 drives across two bridgeboards connected to the pci board and data is being pulled from 2-4 drives how much does the CPU play in the transfer.
Thanks.