On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:02:01PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Okay, you're about right. But the performance difference is really slim.
>
> when you can put 6 scsi disks in a raid0, it makes a difference against
> eide which can only use 2 (4 on new raid66/100 motherboards) disks
> because of the silly master/slave hierarchy.
Well, sort of. IF Promise were supported (Note: I "blame" Promise for
this), you could easily put in another controller. Then you'd have 8
drives. If that's still not enough put in another controller, if you still
have pci slots left :-) to get 12.
No, SCSI doesn't make sense for the average user. And this is the last I'm
gonna say (unless somebody makes a terribly stupid remark :])
> i agree with you: for the price of 20Gb SCSI drive, one can buy a score
> of 45Gb EIDE drives :-)
That's it. And you can also easily afford another computer to hold all the
drives and connect them thru a LAN. And if you are going to do this, you
won't need those super-hi-speed drives as you won't get more than ~10MB/s
through the LAN anyway with 100 MBit/s.
EOT for me
Alexander Skwar
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