On Monday 20 October 2003 10:28 am, scott.marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Peter Childs wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > > A fast HD with a good RAID controller. Subject to budget, SCSI > > > are beter buy than IDE. So does hardware SCSI RAID. > > > > I hate asking this again. But WHY? > > > > What SCSI gain in spinning at 15000RPM and larger buffers. They > > lose in Space, and a slower bus. I would like to see some profe. > > Sorry. > > SCSI beats IDE hands down for databases, and for one reason above > all the rest. They don't generally lie about fsync. >....
Talk about timing...this article posted today seems quite apropos (spoiler: SCSI beats IDE): http://hardware.devchannel.org/hardwarechannel/03/10/20/1953249.shtml?tid=20&tid=38&tid=49 Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
