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Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C S Hendrix)
Wed Dec 16 13:03:45 1998
To: Maxim Surdu <maxim@mas2000.msk.ru>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:54:37 +0300."
<3.0.5.32.19981216105437.008291e0@100.0.0.2>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:13:06 -0500
From: C S Hendrix <shendrix@escape.widomaker.com>
In message <3.0.5.32.19981216105437.008291e0@100.0.0.2>, Maxim Surdu writes:
> The performance of wide SCSI drives is not so different from narrow/fast SCSI
> as it mostly depends of RPM speed and thus your fast/narrow drives have
> almost
> the same performance as your wide Hawk (Hawk is slow 5400 rpm drive).
Probably true. I just happened to remember that my external narrow
drive is a Seagate Elite A/V drive so it is pretty fast. I just
thought given roughly the same speed I should expect block transfers
to be faster.
It is possible that a side benefit is less time on the bus by the wide
drives.
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