Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

[Thierry Vignaud]

Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> 
> What's more, IDE suffers from not having TCQ (well, AFAIK, ATA 100 will have)

yes but on a UP box, the scsi command overhead makes ide looks better.

> and cannot oper in disconnected mode. Not to mention that IDE or EIDE (ie, IDE
> + ATAPI) is limited in speed by the peripheral which has the lower command
> input rate.

you can always put slow devices on another cable.
 
> SCSI is far from being replaced anytime soon. You want performance, take SCSI.

sure.