At 12:51 PM 9/27/02, you wrote: >hdparm allows you to pass parameters to the hard drive... :) > >Things that (for example) turn on or off: > DMA > Multi sector IO > Standby Timeouts > PIO mode > DMA mode > Benchmarking > etc... > >Some things work great. Some depend on the drive/controller you have, and >some seem like there're just there to teach people to RTFM. > >On a desktop, go nuts playing with them. On a server... Give your head a >shake for buying IDE drives,
Why? Top of the line IDE drives are faster than SCSI now and much cheaper. (As long as you stick with one per channel) They come with 3 year warranties. So they don't support command queuing like SCSI. Unless you have extra money to spend SCSI is no longer a big advantage over IDE. In fact, I can build very fast IDE raids for than the price of a single SCSI card and Large SCSI Drive ( =>73 Gigs ). The IDE raid array will provide command queuing and blow the SCSI away on performance. No SCSI being a requirement of a Server is no longer valid advice. The drives may be better but you pay too a steep premium. -- Mark Lane Hard Data Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5X 1Y3 http://www.harddata.com/ --> Ask me about our Affordable Alpha Systems! <--
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