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> * Ralph Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 17 Jan 2000
> | Well, for IDE (in UDMA/66 mode) it's 66Mhz over a 60 cm long cable. SCSI
> | supports even higher frequencies over an even longer cable. Unless you
> | start using fire-wire or other hot technology disk applications, you'll
> | never see optical connections inside a PC.
>
> Fibre channel (FDDI) is *the* way to hook up high capacity, high speed RAID
> configurations. Anything less, even the current generation ultra fast/wide
> SCSI is pathetically slow by comparison.
I've yet to see the first PC that uses FDDI. Yes, servers use FDDI, but the
confergence towards FireWire has already started. And in general, inside
the box that connects by FDDI or FireWire to the server, there are SCSI-UW
drives.....
Cheers,
Ralph -> What has this to do with MD? Nothing...
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