I remember back in '99 when Brandon W. Beasley wrote:
> Is it a bad idea to use IDE (instead of SCSI) for servers? This is a light
> load server, incidentally.
>
> When would one be well-advised to use SCSI instead of IDE?
Really heavily used server (many processes) all using many drives.
This is where SCSI wins, since you can have lots of drives, with
lots of outstanding requests.
For bang-for-buck a fast IDE drive will probably beat out a
comparably priced SCSI drive in a single user, or lightly
used server box.
At least this is the standard wisdom. I have IDE PC's, and SCSI Sun
boxes, but not too many SCSI PC's, and no IDE Sun's.
Matt
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