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Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Dec 5 01:58:25 1998
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: leonardz@rvib2.rvib.org.au (Leonard Zhang System Administrator ISD RVIB)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:16:28 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: leighton@mail.imake.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.96.981204161547.17252A-100000@rvib2.rvib.org.au> from "Leonard Zhang System Administrator ISD RVIB" at Dec 4, 98 04:18:53 pm
> IDE is cheaper and faster than SCSI, but you can't have so much IDE hard
> disks hooked up to your machine as SCSI.
For real work patterns SCSI tends to be faster than IDE. Also for high
end devices SCSI is wonderful. Most of my smaller boxes are IDE- its just
not worth the price difference
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