Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:57:22 +0100 From: James Mansion <james@westongold.com> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: RE: hw platform Q - what's a good smp choice these days? Message-ID: <32BABEF63EAED111B2C5204C4F4F502017F7@WGP01>
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Its all very well, but SCSI disks are a LOT more expensive than IDE ones. Might be faster IO per drive with SCSI, but I'd rather have twice the capacity and spend the remainder on more RAM. James > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Passe [mailto:smp@csn.net] > SNIP > > > If you are going to multiple disks and have the money, SCSI is the > > way to go. But IDE disks are so much less! For a single drive, > > the new IDE DMA driver does as well as SCSI. > > I agree with this point, but I think of SCSI as much more than a disk > controller. I typically hang a jaz or zip drive off it, plus a SCSI > DAT tape for backup, or possibly a scanner, or a CD-ROM drive, or ... > > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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