[1616] in linux-scsi channel archive
disk suggestions ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Wed Mar 26 10:09:52 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:04:05 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
I am looking at adding some disks to my system (P5-133, RH-4.1, kernel
2.0.29). I have two P5-133's, one with SCSI (Seagate ST32430N) and the
other with EIDE (Quantum 3.1 Fireball). Frankly, I can't tell the
difference in the performance from a user perspective. These are small
systems, typically, at most four logins at a time, running various
things like Netscape, Tex, emacs, Mathematica. No innd, httpd, etc.
These days, one can get a 4 GB EIDE for around $450, while a 4 GB SCSI
is around $1000. I already have the scsi controllers, so that is not
an expense of its own. I would like to know reasons for more SCSI disks
instead
of more EIDE (until I fill up the IDE slots, of course).
I would like to test out some benchmarks on these systems to see what
actually occurs.
Any comments, suggestions are appreciated.
TIA,
-sen
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