"Marshall, Joshua" wrote:
>
> I hope I'm not opening a can of worms here, but what are the real
> differences these days between IDE and SCSI performance-wise?
>
> I've been told that SCSI can handle multi-user better, but I'm just
> wondering if it's just a myth now with the performance gains that IDE
> has had of late.
IDE has one fundamental flaw - it can only access one device at a time.
Yes, they've tweaked the process and on a user/workstation bang/dollar
IDE wins, but when you get into the serious stuff (multi-user/terabyte),
SCSI is definitely the way to go.
A couple of analogies
1 - Didn't you notice that the guys who ran the 100 metres at the
*lympics didn't run the marathon?
2 - The similarity could be best explained by an analogy. If I want a
fast car I'd be looking at a porche, trans am or whatever. Sure, I could
supercharge/nitrous the Niki and match these cars on speed, but I
wouldn't think about driving it to Melbourne (except perhaps as a novel
way to committ suicide {:-).
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