Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:05:36 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2G SCSI disks? Message-ID: <199702041335.AAA13715@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199702041043.CAA22950@MindBender.serv.net> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at "Feb 4, 97 02:43:12 am"
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Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com stands accused of saying: > > >Failing that, has anyone done anything with the new Maxtor > >"DiamondMax" disks? Or have any suggestions for IDE disks that are > >likely to come close to the performance of an Ultra-SCSI disk? > > ... "close to the performance of an Ultra-SCSI disk" only if you don't > have any concurrency! There IS a difference. I'm not completely stupid 8) > Remind yourself that there's a reason RAID towers don't use SCSI > drives... Yeah, they're cheap and stupid, so you don't have to second-guess them. > (Which is fine if you know what you're getting into, but don't truly > expect IDE to be able to do everything as well as SCSI, no matter what > the marketing people say.) Hell, Michael, there's a damn good reason why I specified SCSI disk for these units. But the $400 IBM disk I specified might as well never have existed; I have the option of an Atlas-II ($800) or a 2G 'cuda (~$1000), or I swallow my pride and happiness and go IDE. Now tell me how easy it's going to be to tell my boss that we have to blow $400 of our (already narrow) margin on each of these units because _I_ care about performance. 8( (I'll stop here before the sob-story disintegrates into tears 8) > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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