On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:49:17AM -0400, Al Danial wrote: > Thanks to everyone who posted performance numbers and machine > setup info. Some results were counterintuitive (I'd have guessed > SCSI drives would come out on top) but many variables are at work
It is basically impossible that a 10k or 15k rpm SCSI disk is genuinely substantially slower for writes than a 7200 rpm IDE disk. Most likely, the SCSI disks had write-through cache turned off, and the IDE disks had it turned on. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/
