> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 19 10:52:47 1999
>
> | Hmm. I use SCSI on high-performance systems, but if IDE is so bad, why
> | does NASA use IDE? ;)
>
> as far as I know, beowulf tends to use the network more than the disk, so it
> isn't necessary to have an extremely fast disk subsystem. RAM, CPU, and
> network speeds are much more important.
I suspect this is exactly the reason. Using a simple software RAID 1 with
cheap IDE disks would probably be sufficient in this case.
C
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