Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

[Meir Faraj]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:43:30AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > > BTW, why would you bother using IDE if you wanted performance?
> >
> > A simple cost/benefit relationship.  IDE is *much* cheaper than SCSI and
> > the fastest hard drives (as far as MB/sec is concerned) are IDE drives.
>
> False. Faster EIDE drives gives you ~40Mb/sec while edge SCSI ones
> deliver up to 65Mo/sec.
>
> > And with UDMA they aren't as CPU hungry as the older non-UDMA drives
> > were.
> >
> > Why should I buy the much more expensive SCSI disks as a home user?  It
> > simply doesn't make sense anymore, at least not for me.
> >
> > Alexander Skwar
why do you need more than 40MB/sec , are you editing video under linux or 
cature video ????