On Jun 26, 2005, at 22:34, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
In fact, looking at the SATA 2.x specs, each chanell there is rated at
300MB/s, which, again, if I could 'max out evenly', could seriously
blow away the SCSI bus itself ...
*If* I'm reading this right ... ?
Bus speed does not equal drive speed. And while yes, SATA is now
approaching SCSI in bus speed, it doesn't mean that SCSI isn't standing
still. A 640 MB/s bus was standardized in 2003 (though SATA is planned
to go to 600MB/s in 2007):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI#Ultra-640
This has been hashed out many times over the years in comp.periph.scsi
(it used to be IDE versus SCSI, not it's (S)ATA versus SCSI). A search
through the archives would probably return many results.
The SCSI FAQ [1] would also probably be useful. Specifically the
questions:
QUESTION: What are the pros and cons regarding SCSI vs IDE/ATA ?
http://home.comcast.net/~SCSIguy/SCSI_FAQ/scsifaq.html#_Hlk407004722
QUESTION:Should I spend the extra money on SCSI or just get IDE?
http://home.comcast.net/~SCSIguy/SCSI_FAQ/scsifaq.html#_Hlk407091459
QUESTION:Why do SCSI disks cost so much more than IDE/ATA disks?
http://home.comcast.net/~SCSIguy/SCSI_FAQ/scsifaq.html#_SCSI_Cost002
[1] http://www.scsifaq.org/
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