On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Michael Emery wrote:
I wrote: I'm talking a beige G3 MT with two internal 16GB drives, one is the ATA and one is on the SCSI via a SCSI accelerator card. Does it matter which of these drives is used s the startup drive?And Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote privately: Doesn't matter which you set as start-up drive, but the SCSI is faster.
If the 2 drives are of the same vintage, yes, scsi will be faster. However, for example, I have had some 9 and 18G server class (80 pin sca connector) scsi drives hooked to a 2940U2W and they were not as fast as a 120G ata drive hooked up to the onboard ata on a beige mt.
Also, fwiw, I tested a 120 and 160 ata drive hooked to an acard 6280M ata133 controller and the onboard ide connectors on my Digital Audio (ata66) and there was almost no difference ( less than 10%) in speed between the various drive and controller combinations.
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