It seems Thomas Stromberg wrote:
>
> $--- 128M PC133 RAM
> $150 Asus A7V (w/ Promise ATA100 controller)
> $297 AMD Athlon 850 (still waiting for than price drop)
> $63 Tekram 390F UW-SCSI Controller (Symbios)
> $132 4.5G 10000RPM Seagate Cheetah
> or
> $97 IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA-100 7200RPM 15G (DTLA)
>
> The question is, whats the real speed difference between a IBM 75GX
> (http://www.tweakmax.com/html/ibm75gxp/ibm-1.cfm) and ye old 10000RPM
> Cheetahs in FreeBSD? Id imagine the Cheetah is faster for compiles, but
> is the difference small enough that Id be better off spending the $100 I
> save on ATA100 and spend it on another 128M of RAM. I would of course be
> using the drive as one drive per channel w/ softupdates, noatime.
>
> Any advice, bonnie stats, or make world times would be appreciated.
Hmm, I have an Abit KA7-100 (thanks to Trent George!) here with
IBM 75GXP drives on it (btw the KA7-100 is a VERY nice board)
so I will give it a shot on bonnie and world later today to give
you some numbers. I would go for the ATA setup and extra RAM
but I'm biased :)
PS I have ATA100 support for the HPT370 used on the KA7-100
running, but I haven't gotten to the Promise Ultra100 lying
here next to me yet, watch -current for updates on it...
-S�ren
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