Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:14:50 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA100-7200rpm vs 10k-rpm SCSI for build box Message-ID: <20000801201450.C91677@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200008011503.RAA39454@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:03:48PM %2B0200 References: <3986D7F3.35823C92@rtci.com> <200008011503.RAA39454@freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:03:48PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > > > $--- 128M PC133 RAM > > $150 Asus A7V (w/ Promise ATA100 controller) > > $297 AMD Athlon 850 (still waiting for than price drop) > > $63 Tekram 390F UW-SCSI Controller (Symbios) > > $132 4.5G 10000RPM Seagate Cheetah > > or > > $97 IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA-100 7200RPM 15G (DTLA) > > > > The question is, whats the real speed difference between a IBM 75GX > > (http://www.tweakmax.com/html/ibm75gxp/ibm-1.cfm) and ye old 10000RPM > > Cheetahs in FreeBSD? Id imagine the Cheetah is faster for compiles, but > > is the difference small enough that Id be better off spending the $100 I > > save on ATA100 and spend it on another 128M of RAM. I would of course be > > using the drive as one drive per channel w/ softupdates, noatime. > > > > Any advice, bonnie stats, or make world times would be appreciated. > > Hmm, I have an Abit KA7-100 (thanks to Trent George!) here with > IBM 75GXP drives on it (btw the KA7-100 is a VERY nice board) Right, I second that one. KA7 works just fine for me. And it has a useful (to me) ISA slot instead of a worthles win-modem slot (forgot the abbrev). I don't have the KA7-100, don't use any ATA stuff here, only SCSI. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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