Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:01:17 +1000 (AEST) | From | Leonard Zhang System Administrator ISD RVIB <> | Subject | Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks? |
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On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I think currently spinning SCSI hard disks on the world, either in servers > > or workstation, either in Unix/Linux or NT, is 50-pin old guys, no DPT disk > > And as my stats showed for real work even old 5400 rpm fast scsi on a > now discontinued adapter (the BT946) beats current UDMA IDE for real world > compiles. You "think". I've "measured" >
Open server 5.0.4p, DPT RAID-1, 32 MB cache, PCI, 4.2 GB (A cable)
copy 9,177 K in 9 seconds.
Red hat 4.2, 8 GB IDE
copy 9,397 K in 2 seconds.
both run in shell script.
Leonard
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