Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 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.
>
> Okay, you're about right. But the performance difference is really slim.
when you can put 6 scsi disks in a raid0, it makes a difference against
eide which can only use 2 (4 on new raid66/100 motherboards) disks
because of the silly master/slave hierarchy.
> Speaking of prices: UltraATA 100 is readily available on board with many
> new motherboards, else you would need something like a Promise controller or
> simply power it down to UltraDMA 66, which doesn't give you any performance
> differences with 1 drive. So, the EIDE disk is 399,- DM + 109,- DM for the
> Promise controller = 508,- DM (~250 US$). The SCSI disk is a whopping
> 1799,- DM (~900 US$).
>
> What's more cost effective?
i agree with you: for the price of 20Gb SCSI drive, one can buy a score
of 45Gb EIDE drives :-)
