On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:09:34AM -0400 I heard the voice of Jeff, and lo! it spake thus: > > insured shipping. But yeah, new scsi is quite expensive, but it can be > worth it... IMHO scsi is to be used in a raid, not alone. No one disk > can saturate the bw offered. (both ide and scsi).
The difference is that IDE *HAS* to be able to saturate the bus (which it can't, of course; show me an IDE drive that pushes even 66MB/sec off the platter) for the bus speed to matter, since IDE doesn't support disconnection. Multiple SCSI drives can be stuffing data over the SCSI channel all at once. They don't have to be RAID'd, they can be different filesystems accessed in parallel. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
