Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:39:18 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: nellie@home.com Subject: Re: hardware Message-ID: <19971106083918.VO37674@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199711060503.PAA01281@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Nov 6, 1997 15:33:32 %2B1030 References: <199711060445.VAA23332@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199711060503.PAA01281@word.smith.net.au>
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As Mike Smith wrote: > > If you're really putting together a system for FreeBSD, remember to > > spend your money in the important areas. First, throw out the IDE > > interface, don't even think about using it. > This advice is *seriously* outdated, especially in the light of the > current performance of 3.x systems. I haven't been talking about performance. I have no doubts that the performance of an IDE disk subsystem can cope with SCSI (although some of the drive vendors still have a tendency to build the better drives SCSI-only, and conversely, build IDE drives in the assumption they won't have a hard life in front of them). What makes me vehemently vote against IDE is that i've read (part of) the ATA specs, and am now amazed that it's even possible that some of these drives do indeed work at all. The vendors must have had more serious sources than those specs, or nothing would work at all. And before you're going to buy anything else than IDE disk drives, where the vendors have some experience, well, really go and read the specs yourself. After stopping laughing, you'll probably write the same letters as me. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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