From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 17:26:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wank.necropolis.org (wank.westin16.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF4814E96 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by wank.necropolis.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA68333; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:34:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from todd@flyingcroc.net) X-Authentication-Warning: wank.necropolis.org: todd owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:34:45 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Backman X-Sender: todd@wank.necropolis.org To: Colin Campbell Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI v IDE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Colin, Three things: 1. SCSI 2. SCSI 3. SCSI The *only* reason we might use IDE drives is for cheap archival purposes. I run a web farm of +230 FreeBSD boxen and SCSI is the way to go...(to be exact; we use all adaptec cards w/ seagate cheetahs) - Todd On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Colin Campbell wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking at putting together a web server/cache system. At the moment > I am torn between say $2500 for an IDE-based system or $3500 for a SCSI > system. The system is PIII, with memory (of course :-) and 2x9GB disk for > web only or 2x18GB if I add cache. > > I have read in many places that SCSI is "better" (due to the ability of > the controller to issue multiple commands to the disks). But if I have two > IDEs, each on its own controller is there any real performance benefit > with SCSI, assuming the disks are similar in performance characteristics? > > Colin > -- > Colin Campbell > Unix Support/Postmaster/Hostmaster > CITEC > +61 7 3227 7112 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message