Yes and no. You get bigger space, but suffer in throughput and utility.
Thre 4.5GB SCSI-U2, on a AHA-2940, make a much faster and more reliable
disk-set than the same thing in UDMA. The normal performance vs space
trade-off seems to apply here.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 2:18 PM
> To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Cc: Thomas Willert; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Raid Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Promise Ultra66
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
> > I just saw 4.5GB SCSI-UW drives, at Fry's, for $168US. How much disk
> > space do you need?
>
> Not to go too far off topic but, see what $168 gets you in IDE. Since
> I've done a little bit oflooking into this, I'll post some notes Ive
> found: (note, all m y figures are at home, not w/me right now)
>
> 25gig IBM UDMA/66, 2 or 4mb cache, <10ms seek time, 5400rpm, ~$300
> 9.1gb IBM SCSi3 (68pin, 40MB/s), ?? cache, <10ms seek time
> (prolly better
> then that..), 7200rpm, ~$260.
> 22gb IBM UDMA/66 2 or 4 cache, <10ms seek tiem too, 7200rpm,
> 2something.
>
> The above numers could be a bit off, as its all from memory and week
> oldprices. But, for little more $$ you get a lot more space.
> (UDMA/66
> also does deal with lots of the issues of udma/33, but SCSI
> is no doubt
> faster.)
>
> ---
> Tom Rini (TR1265)
> http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
>
