On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> Yes and no. You get bigger space, but suffer in throughput and utility.
> Thre 4.5GB SCSI-U2, on a AHA-2940, make a much faster and more reliable
> disk-set than the same thing in UDMA. The normal performance vs space
> trade-off seems to apply here.
Yeah, SCSI gives more bang, but IDE is more space for the buck. For
somrhing like a giant mp3 archive, raiding 'em up will do fine. Or
anything where you need big space and speed isn't a big big concern.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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