Hi,
> > al...and of course, speeds will be great....no amount of hdparming
> > can raise any IDE to the level of a SCSI.
>
> Can anything bring down the cost of SCSI down as low as IDE? Comparison?
Agreed that scsi is and will remain the king w.r.t speed and
quality. But when you weigh it against the price, I don't think it can
beat a good 5400 or 7200 rpm udma-66 ide disk with a udma-66 interface on
mobo.
I have a 8.4G udma-66 ide disk (samsung), with an i810 mobo (it
has ata/udma-66 interfaces on mobo). After hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16, I get a
decent 20MB/s unbuffered and 90MB/s bufferred reads.
The standard benchmark of kernel compilation on this box
(P-II@400MHz+64MB 100MHz SDRAM) for 2.2.14 kernel finishes within 3min 30
secs. I have timed this *several* times, and it is quite consistent. Same
goes for octave compilation or XFree86 compilation. The thing is fast.
Noticably faster (almost 1.5 to 2 times) than a P-III@500MHz but with a
disk that manages only 9MB/s.
I think this 3.5 min for a full kernel compile is pretty fast for
most of the tarball compiles you may want to do.
Regards,
Kedar.
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