Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

[Thierry Vignaud]

Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:43:30AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > BTW, why would you bother using IDE if you wanted performance?
> 
> A simple cost/benefit relationship.  IDE is *much* cheaper than SCSI and the
> fastest hard drives (as far as MB/sec is concerned) are IDE drives. 

False. Faster EIDE drives gives you ~40Mb/sec while edge SCSI ones
deliver up to 65Mo/sec.

> And with UDMA they aren't as CPU hungry as the older non-UDMA drives were.
> 
> Why should I buy the much more expensive SCSI disks as a home user?  It
> simply doesn't make sense anymore, at least not for me.
> 
> Alexander Skwar