From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 6:50:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6364037B957 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 06:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (ppp-003.ocsny.com [204.107.76.30]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA63453; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:50:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39882935.932943D2@ocsny.com> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 09:59:17 -0400 From: Mikel Organization: Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Blake Barr Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 15,000RPM SCSI VS. IBM 75GXP ATA100 References: <000c01bffc01$27bc9360$0700000a@barney> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------79C20FBF9AE011259136CA88" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------79C20FBF9AE011259136CA88 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------1021BB0C7E07BC5141792175" --------------1021BB0C7E07BC5141792175 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Personally I would say it all depends upon the intended application. A web server with a dbms back end possibly scsi, a firewall/dsl gateway ide, mail or fileserver probably ide if it's for a small office or home use. Anyway those are just some thoughts...look at it like this home/small office ide for sure...moderate to large business most likely scsi. Blake Barr wrote: > will I see a huge difference in performance between the Seagate > 15,000RPM Ultra/160 drives vs. the ATA100 IBM drives at 7200RPM for > non server applications, and would the difference be worth the apprx. > $400 price difference? -- Cheers, Mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc http://www.ocsny.com | 39 W14th Street, Suite 203 212 727 2238 x132 | New York, NY 10011 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ --------------1021BB0C7E07BC5141792175 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Personally I would say it all depends upon the intended application. A web server with a dbms back end possibly scsi, a firewall/dsl gateway ide, mail or fileserver probably ide if it's for a small office or home use. Anyway those are just some thoughts...look at it like this home/small office ide for sure...moderate to large business most likely scsi.

Blake Barr wrote:

will I see a huge difference in performance between the Seagate 15,000RPM Ultra/160 drives vs. the ATA100 IBM drives at 7200RPM for non server applications, and would the difference be worth the apprx. $400 price difference?

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Cheers,
Mikel
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