From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 6:58:20 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 CE11337B56D for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 06:58:10 -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 JAA63761; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:58:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39882AFD.1E2264F@ocsny.com> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:06:53 -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 , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 15,000RPM SCSI VS. IBM 75GXP ATA100 References: <000c01bffc01$27bc9360$0700000a@barney> <39882935.932943D2@ocsny.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------72D7BDEEF6122AD653BD5E87" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------72D7BDEEF6122AD653BD5E87 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------88CD8001886F9C6C8287CE89" --------------88CD8001886F9C6C8287CE89 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit sorry I meant 15krpm not scsi...7200rpm should be fine for almost anything you can through at it...yes even some served applications... Mikel wrote: > 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 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ --------------88CD8001886F9C6C8287CE89 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit sorry I meant 15krpm not scsi...7200rpm should be fine for almost anything you can through at it...yes even some served applications...

Mikel wrote:

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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