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Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard Zhang System Administrator)
Mon Dec 7 06:23:43 1998
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:01:17 +1000 (AEST)
From: Leonard Zhang System Administrator ISD RVIB <leonardz@rvib2.rvib.org.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: leighton@mail.imake.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0zmh8v-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I think currently spinning SCSI hard disks on the world, either in servers
> > or workstation, either in Unix/Linux or NT, is 50-pin old guys, no DPT disk
>
> And as my stats showed for real work even old 5400 rpm fast scsi on a
> now discontinued adapter (the BT946) beats current UDMA IDE for real world
> compiles. You "think". I've "measured"
>
Open server 5.0.4p, DPT RAID-1, 32 MB cache, PCI, 4.2 GB (A cable)
copy 9,177 K in 9 seconds.
Red hat 4.2, 8 GB IDE
copy 9,397 K in 2 seconds.
both run in shell script.
Leonard
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