On Sep 18, 2009, at 10:39 AM, John Niven wrote:
> Maybe just "lore" but I remember reading that scsi drives put less > demand on the cpu than ATA, because they have a smarter controller. Yes and no. They do use less CPU, but with CPU's newer than about a 68020 it's not noticeable. SCSI has a place in enterprise systems, where I/O is totally critical, but there we're dealing with big SAN's, and even there the diff between SATA and SCSI is pretty much gone, and SATA is even catching up to SAS (Serial attached SCSI), and SATA is vastly cheaper than SCSI or SAS. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
