Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?

[Robert Minichino]

> Come off it, when you do disk benchmarks you use a dataset sufficently
> large so that the cache doesn't matter. Linux does caching just fine,
> DPT's cache is somewhat redundant.

DPT's cache is designed to be used with operating systems that do 
caching.  Its principal purpose is to speed up writes, allowing dirty 
blocks to be flushed very quickly, and the controller to do the write 
completely in the background.

--
Robert Minichino
Chief Engineer
Denarius Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.denarius.com/


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