----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] IDE vs. SCSI revisited
> Quoting Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > ...is probably untrue because the presence of large caches > > on today's IDE hard drives (I believe they're up to 4 to 8MB > > on high end drives nowadays) does make a practical difference > > in the throughput of hard disks. As to whether Linux's 'efficient > > cache buffer management' will necessarily 'mask the effect' of > > onboard hard disk caches, I think that's an open question. The > > best way to settle this would be to disable the onboard hard disk > > caches and do a benchmark. Now taking bets... :-) > > Oh, please do! Benchmarks are my _very_ favourite way by which people > fool themselves. This could be very entertaining. > > > Now about SCSI disconnect... how does that work.... > > Wait, you're going around making judgements about drive technology, and > you _don't know how disconnect works_? > > I hope, by the way, that you're not under the misconception that I've > volunteered to _convince_ you of anything? ok enough said.... all rick's statements are *correct* between scsi vs ide thingy.. the *best* way to solve the problem to distinguish which is better between the two technology is to *unite* them instead fighting over that scsi is better or ide is better.. you can get the performance of a scsi by using ide disk at a lower cost!!! sounds weird huh? :-> well its time to reveal some technology that others still dont know about this... all you need is a *scsi-to-ide* converter.. http://www.acard.com/eng/product/scside/aec-7720uw.html for example, buy a 16bit scsi controller (which can handle 15 disks) , buy 15 x 180 gigabytes or more capacity of ide hard disk, buy 15 scsi-to-ide converter, software raid 0 or 5 and you got a 2.7 or more terabytes of storage at a fraction of a cost compare to millions of pesos that is commercially available that is offering for large storage. fooler. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
