Re: upgrade fund

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> 
> scsi multithreads, IDE doesn't.. this makes quite a difference on
> multi-process applications .. esp. servers
> 

I will vouch for this having just loaded a ~1Gb database on my laptop - it
takes about 2-3 times longer on IDE here than it would on an otherwise
similarly specified machine with SCSI disks - this is because IDE has a
greater need to serialize the multiple reads and writes required for this
operation ....


/J\